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1. ''Financial services - bankrupcty.''
''Environmental policy - greenhouse gases.''  


Lehman Brothers was a global financial services firm which declared bankruptcy in 2008.
Carbon dioxide - CO<sub>2</sub>, or CO2 - is the principal greenhouse gas.


The collapse of Lehman Brothers was a major event in the global financial crisis starting in 2007/8.
Sometimes abbreviated to ''carbon''.




2. ''Global financial crisis.''
To aid comparisons, other gas emissions can be expressed in terms of their carbon dioxide equivalent.
 
The term 'Lehman' is often used as an abbreviation for the conditions and market behaviour which preceded the global financial crisis, or for the financial crisis itself.
 
 
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Pre-Lehman excesses'''''</span>
 
:"As the necessary balance sheet repair from the pre-Lehman excesses is still incomplete, central banks will try to keep their economies off their leashes for as long as possible to avoid running the risk of choking off the upswing."
 
:''The Treasurer magazine, February 2018, p9 - Kallum Pickering, senior UK economist, Berenburg Bank.''




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Balance sheet repair]]
* [[Carbon]]
* [[Bankruptcy]]
* [[Carbon dioxide equivalent]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Carbon footprint]]
* [[Credit crunch]]
* [[Carbon offsetting]]
* [[Financial services]]
* [[Corporate social responsibility]]
* [[Global Financial Crisis]]
* [[Embodied carbon]]
* [[Lehman provisions]]
* [[Emissions]]
* [[Post-Lehman]]
* [[Environmental concerns]]
* [[Pre-Lehman]]
* [[Greenhouse gas]] (GHG)
* [[Net zero]]
* [[Operational carbon]]
* [[Renewables]]
* [[Residual carbon]]


[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]

Latest revision as of 06:06, 1 February 2024

Environmental policy - greenhouse gases.

Carbon dioxide - CO2, or CO2 - is the principal greenhouse gas.

Sometimes abbreviated to carbon.


To aid comparisons, other gas emissions can be expressed in terms of their carbon dioxide equivalent.


See also