A cool opportunity to be climate-friendly The agreement adopted at Kigali, Rwanda, to limit and reduce the use of heat-trapping refrigerant gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), is a big win for the global effort to address climate change. For its part, India showed flexibility to help secure an ambitious agreement while protecting its development space. Now, make this a grand commercial opportunity. ... Read More »
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How to Finance a New Climate Economy
How to Finance a New Climate Economy Over the next fifteen years, the world needs to invest more in new infrastructure and upgrades than everything that exists today. This means we have a crucial window of opportunity to build it right, reflecting the new international priorities of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. If we continue on ... Read More »
Climate change is making our summers more extreme
Climate change is making our summers more extreme Scientists have been able to more directly link extreme weather, like the floods that hit Central Europe last month, to climate change. A changed climate could also mean hotter summers – and with that, more deaths. Europe’s summer got off to a torrential start this year as severe flooding struck much of ... Read More »