What business needs to know on taking climate action in 2023

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From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year

With 2023 coming up, we have just seven years left to halve emissions in line with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C. If 2021 was the year for setting climate ambition, 2022 was the year of implementation....

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