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The frequency of the unthinkable

Emma Howard Boyd, Environment Agency
clock 11 October 2019 •

Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd's speech this week to the Aldersgate Group - in full

Four years ago, in Mark Carney's speech on "the tragedy of the horizon", he discussed three risks climate change poses to the financial system: Liability risks (i.e. can people be sued for previous...

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