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

Business Green

In September, the UN General Assembly meets in its 75th session to, among other things, review the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 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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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise.

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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

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The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. "By The facts are undeniable.

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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. The facts are undeniable.

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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. The landmark decision suggests that the fate of the world’s largest polluters no longer may be in the hands of their executives, board or investors.

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Shell and the new era of climate risk

Business Green

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the folks who organise the annual COP events - defines "climate-related risks" as those: ". As Scientific American noted : "For the first time in history, a court … ordered a private company, rather than a government, to curb its planet-warming pollution.".

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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. ” The landmark decision suggests that the fate of the world’s largest polluters no longer may be in the hands of their executives, board or investors.