Climate Change The New Economy
Climate Change, Environment
It’s hard to be optimistic about climate action, not in a week when federal scientists reported that “the Arctic shows no sign of returning” to the “reliably frozen region of recent past decades.” Not in a month when California’s wildfires show every sign of burning straight through Christmas. And not in a
Read More3rd May 2016 If you’re the boss of BP, Chevron or Shell, how worried are you right now? 171 governments put pen to paper last week, formally signing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The New York event was an encouraging, albeit largely symbolic, confirmation of December’s commitment to limit temperature rises
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11th October 2015 The world’s most influential banker says an orderly switch from fossil fuels to renewables is needed to avoid turmoil on world stock markets. A warning that climate change might make the world’s stock markets and banks unstable and lead to a financial crash has come from Mark Carney, chairman of
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