The Bank of England must have its own Climate Science Committee

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The new goverment should ensure the central bank follows models based on accurate climate data, write Carbon Tracker's Mark Campanale and Bates Wells' Luke Fletcher

New Delhi has just seen a record temperature of 52.3C, and we are on track for nearly 3C of global warming by the end of this century. Worse than the dystopian fantasies of any Hollywood film director,...

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