'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

BusinessGreen staff
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Renewables investment must be ramped up as fossil fuels are phased out, IPCC has argued | Credit: iStock
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Renewables investment must be ramped up as fossil fuels are phased out, IPCC has argued | Credit: iStock

Green business figures, politicians, environmental groups, economists and more react to leading climate experts' assessment of the solutions needed to deliver net zero

When the world's leading climate scientists present a major report that has taken years of painstaking work to compile, doom and gloom can normally expected to follow: as we have been told but failed to...

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