Year: 2019

• 25 January 2019

  Integrating Natural Capital in Risk Assessments: A step-by-step guide for banks

  Natural capital is a way of thinking about nature as a stock that provides a flow of benefits to people and the economy. It consists of natural capital assets such…

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• 24 January 2019

  COP24 Summary blog

  COP24 roundup The acrid smell of coal is one of the first things that strikes you in Katowice, Poland. This seemed a rather incongruous setting for the 24th session of…

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• 23 January 2019

  The Global Risks Report 2019 14th Edition

  Is the world sleepwalking into a crisis? Global risks are intensifying but the collective will to tackle them appears to be lacking. Instead, divisions are hardening. The world’s move into…

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• 21 January 2019

  China Is Set To Become The World’s Renewable Energy Superpower, According To New Report

  The continuing growth in renewable energy around the world is set to boost the power of China while undermining the influence of major oil exporters such as Russia and Middle…

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• 18 January 2019

  Midwesterners are being forced to face up to climate change

  Farmers in the region are beginning to suffer its effects. How much do Midwesterners care about climate change? “The back of the envelope political calculation is that this region is…

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• 16 January 2019

  India launches national anti-pollution programme, but experts sceptical

  The National Clean Air Programme aims to cut pollution in the 102 worst affected cities by 20-30 percent by 2024. India on Thursday launched a programme to rein in dangerous…

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• 14 January 2019

  Power of 10: Shaping the Future of Climate Action

  Take two minutes to check out this video from the Climate Investment Funds. Mafalda Duarte, head of the Climate Investment Funds, announces the “Power of Ten: Shaping the Future of…

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