IMF: Climate policies needed now to avoid 'innumerable' costs of inaction

Cecilia Keating
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IMF: Climate policies needed now to avoid 'innumerable' costs of inaction

Global body calls on governments to establish 'credible and irreversible' climate policies that drive 25 per cent cut in emissions by 2030

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the cost of climate inaction will dwarf the economic hit of a managed transition to a lower carbon economy over the next eight years. The influential...

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