Sectors

On May 6, 2014, the Administration released the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA), the most authoritative and comprehensive source of scientific information to date about climate change impacts across all U.S. regions and on critical sectors of the economy.

The Northwest’s economy, infrastructure, natural systems, public health, and agriculture sectors all face important climate change related risks. Impacts on infrastructure, natural systems, human health, and economic sectors, combined with issues of social and ecological vulnerability, will unfold quite differently in largely natural areas, like the Cascade Range, than in urban areas like Seattle and Portland or among the region’s many Native American Tribes.

Climate change affects water demand and the ways water is used within and across regions and economic sectors.

After the fall of the Roman Empire of the West, the Church of Rome not only continued to use Latin but, in a certain way, made herself its custodian and champion in both the theological and liturgical sectors as well as in formation and in the transmission of knowledge.

The most profitable sectors in the United States and Europe are the military and pharmaceutical industries. Knowing this, there is no need to explain why there are always wars on Earth. Yes, it's a shame.

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Recent extreme events demonstrate the vulnerabilities of interconnected economic sectors to increasing risks from climate change.

Algeria is investing money in strategic sectors.

The sanctions were good for Iran because they helped it strengthen various economic sectors.

German virologists—working with the country’s public and private sectors—were able to respond rapidly in January to the looming threat of coronavirus by developing one of the first reliable methods for COVID-19 testing.