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This income and i don't see it as a crucial discussion here. i think catherine is right that the book income tax, this minimum tax, is something you should be very, very worried about. the u.s. tried this in the 1980s and quickly gave it up because it does two things, one, it damages the financial reporting. you are now reporting your financial income for tax purposes and you start shading things to try to lower your taxes. the second thing it does is it really harms the firms you really don't want to tax. you've got taxable income of zero but you've got high book income that is correct means ...

That. if we do everything right, temperature will start coming down global temperatures by the end of the century. so, we are in this for the long haul, we need to acknowledge that, and be smart about it. we need to adapt our energy, systems transportation systems, agricultural systems, and there is a lot of things are being done with engineers and urban planners to try and have a cool adaptation plans, cool roofs, cool asphalt, and roads, things like that. shading, green corridors, more water on the surface, sports as well that lets water in, evaporative lee cools the heat island effect. ther...

First european cities -- it was the first to appoint a chief heat officer, somebody in charge of preparing for the impacts of warming. so, how important is this to sort of recognize this? to have somebody in charge of something like this, is this something many or most studies should have right now? >> without question. we need to be smart about, this we need to really focus on the century-long plan of dealing with this extreme heat and urban areas, but over half the will population today lives in cities. by 2050, over two thirds of the world population will live in urban areas. so, these peop...

With hot weather so we can learn that. b. with hot weather so we can learn that. . ., with hot weather so we can learn that. �* ., ., , with hot weather so we can learn that. ., ., , , ., that. a for housing stock needs to be retrofitted _ that. a for housing stock needs to be retrofitted to _ that. a for housing stock needs to be retrofitted to cope _ that. a for housing stock needs to be retrofitted to cope with - that. a for housing stock needs to i be retrofitted to cope with extremes of temperatures, whether it be, you know, more snow, rain or heat. what with the simplest thing to impro...

Buildings, it is the same. of the first thing to do is to try to keep your home cool.— first thing to do is to try to keep your home cool. how do we do that? it ma your home cool. how do we do that? it may sound — your home cool. how do we do that? it may sound counterintuitive, - your home cool. how do we do that? it may sound counterintuitive, but i it may sound counterintuitive, but try to close the windows when he does extreme, because temperatures are warmer outside than in, close the windows. if you have blinds, please keep them short. if you have shutters, like our mediterranean cou...