Coronavirus Response: 2020 has become a watershed year in more ways than one

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If we had to have a worldwide closedown, at least it occurred during the tipping point year of 2020, argues Andrew Warren

The founder of the world-renowned Potsdam Institute, Hans Joachim Schnelnhuber, is spot on in relation to the coronavirus, when he warns that "there is no other way that is more expensive to save carbon...

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