New campaign to enlist women in boardrooms to take up climate issue

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'Two Degrees of Change' to encourage female executives to demand action from their companies to stave off the threat of global warming

Women working in financial services are opening a new front in the battle against climate change, with the launch of a UN-backed initiative to take global warming concerns into business boardrooms...

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