Exclusive: Businesses urged to sign up to 2°C Challenge Communiqué

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Latest Corporate Leaders Group text to be formally launched this month as many of world’s largest firms endorse calls for climate action

The latest round of climate change talks in Panama this week may once again end in deadlock, but that has not stopped over 90 of the world's largest businesses stepping up their calls for governments to...

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