The fabulous 5 Star Athenaeum overlooks leafy Green Park, Buckingham Palace and is a stroll to chic shops and West End theatres. It’s contemporary, creative and friendly, your home from home in London. The Athenaeum is a family-owned hotel with only 156 rooms, suites and apartments.

1.1 Tourism and Climate Change 1.2 The United Nations and climate change 2. Agreements on GHG emissions reductions and their impact on tourism 3. UNWTO responses to climate change 4. Capacity building and awareness raising events organised and supported by UNWTO 5. The response of Governments and the private sector to the challenges that climate change poses to Tourism 6. Conclusions Tourism and travel is a vital contributor to the global economy and especially important for many developing countries. Tourism is an effective way of redistributing wealth and a catalyst for gender equality, cultural preservation and nature conservation. As a result, the sector is also contributing to the UN Millennium Development Goals. Climate change is one of the most serious threats to society, the economy and the environment and has been an issue of international concern for decades. The Inter‐Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that warming of the global climate system is “unequivocal” and that it is “very likely” that anthropog

If inflation, which is mostly driven by food, rises high enough to jeopardise social stability, the Party’s policy responses would have broad consequences. A sharp slowdown in lending, for example, could lead to slower growth in construction of infrastructure and homes, leading to slower FAI growth and thus slower GDP expansion, as well as weaker demand for commodities.

China has had a property construction boom for much of the past two decades and property construction is arguably a growth engine as powerful as exports for the overall economy. Rapid income growth and growth of urban population were the two most important factors behind the property boom, while the housing reform in the late 1990s helped to unleash the huge pent-up demand for modern commodity (private) housing.