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Keeping within 1.5C: The key green business takeaways

BusinessGreen staff

08 October 2018 •

Keeping within 1.5C: The key green business takeaways

All the key green business implications - risks, targets and opportunities - from the IPCC's seminal report on keeping temperature increases within 1.5C

Following a week of tense deliberations in South Korea, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today unleashed the highly-anticipated report assessing what will be required to stop global...

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