Failure to act on IPCC warnings is a business risk no company can afford

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Credible net zero transition plans must include increasing and tracked adaptation measures alongside robust, science-based 2030 targets, writes CDP's Nicolette Bartlett

Climate change is the single greatest risk to the global economy. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) most recent iteration of its Sixth Assessment Report, released last week, made blatantly...

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