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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

With respect to the warnings of the severity of climate change, this is presently far from the case. With regard to addressing climate change, the transition to a new renewable energy-based paradigm is the greatest economic opportunity of all time.

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Climate change is creating security threats around the world - and militaries are responding

Business Green

But in the context of one of the world's biggest security issues - climate change - threats and adaptations are evolving at pace. In summer 2021, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raised the threat level posed by climate change to a ' code red for humanity'. Carbon bootprints.

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Not so moral money?

Business Green

Stuart Kirk's insistence investors do not need to worry about climate risk fundamentally misunderstands both climate change and risk. He adds that he is probably "the only head of responsible investing who has never used the word journey", which is in fairness a pretty good joke.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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Global Briefing: Paris Olympics targets zero food waste and more plant based meals

Business Green

The launch took place at the first-ever Green Hydrogen Global Assembly in Barcelona, with support from the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, the Green Hydrogen Organisation, the African Development Bank and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Michael Bloomberg announces $242m clean energy investment push.

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