Reflections on COP26: Circular carbon must be part of the solution to climate change

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The world must build up its use of renewable and recycled carbon by 2050 in order to hit climate goals, explains Unilever's Peter ter Kulve

As UN secretary general Antonio Guterres reminded us at the conclusion of COP26: "Our fragile planet is hanging by a thread. We are still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe." The stakes couldn't...

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