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Urgency and consistency must be the watchwords for UK climate action in 2020

Business Green

October's Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) summit in China will review the Aichi targets which seek to halt and reverse the catastrophic loss of nature and wildlife that our species is driving across the planet. And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement.

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'An atlas of human suffering': Top figures react to IPPC's latest climate warning

Business Green

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more.