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

Business Green

The UK must respond to the climate emergency with not just urgency but consistency in its net zero policies, argues WWF UK's Gareth Redmond-King. And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement. It's time to act.

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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.

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Shell and the new era of climate risk

GreenBiz

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Policy & Politics. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society.

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Shell and the new era of climate risk

AGreenLiving

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. And it’s not just climate.