How global business could be the unexpected COP26 solution to climate change

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Could GFANZ help the global economy reach net zero?
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Could GFANZ help the global economy reach net zero?

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) offers a potential model for harnessing the financial world to reach net zero, explains Athabasca University's F. Haider Alvi

Despite environmentalists accusing COP26 of 'greenwashing', broad disappointment with the final conference statement as too little too late and an ambivalent Global South, there is still hope for climate...

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