Survey: Corporates want stronger voice at COP28 as 1.5C confidence falls

Cecilia Keating
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Research across 14 nations suggests corporates want louder voice at UN climate talks as 1.5C threshold looks increasingly threatened

Major companies are increasingly losing confidence in the world's ability to limit global warming below the Paris Agreement's totemic 1.5C threshold, according to fresh global research released today....

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