Report sees business opportunities in global climate change

Human-induced global warming threatens civilization with economic woe, coastal destruction, monster storms, deadly droughts and other challenges. Now for the good news: climate change might also generate new business opportunities, according to a report released Thursday by the University of Texas at Dallas.

Large-scale changes typically create both winners and losers, says UTD political economy professor Lloyd Jeff Dumas, and what could be more far-reaching than global climate change? In ”Seeds of Opportunity: Climate Change Challenges and Solutions,” Dumas spies large potential profits in everything from rising demand for renewable energy sources to the widespread trading of carbon credits.

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