Bob Ward
Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. But these views are my own.
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Climate change risks ‘materialise’
Financial risks to big businesses triggered by global warming have begun to materialise in Australia, helping to revive the political dynamic that first pushed the government to act on climate change a decade ago, according to the nations former top...
Bob Ward
A moment of awakening for @Australian as it reports that climate change risks have begun to ‘materialise for Australian businesses’
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Zero Draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework published by the Secretariat | Convention on Biological Diversity
The Open-Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework has been tasked with advancing preparations for the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. It is expected that this process will culminate in the...
Bob Ward
Here is a very important document that has largely escaped notice since its publication on 13 January: the zero draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
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Climate change is a serious threat to national security
If our responses are presided over by Australia's utterly incapable political class, we may not even survive as a people or nation-state.
Bob Ward
Climate change is a serious threat to Australian national security canberratimes.com.au/story/6591898/… via @canberratimes
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Inequality makes climate change much harder to tackle | Larry Elliott
What Davos didn’t face up to is that we can’t expect poor people to make all the sacrifices
Do alarmists know the difference between weather and climate?
Until recently, those expressing scepticism about climate-change catastrophe have been hauled over the coals (or the renewables equivalent) for not understanding the difference between ‘climate’ and…
Bob Ward
Ha ha ha! Further evidence that @spectator and its hopeless editor @frasernelson have lost the plot on climate change. There is nothing in this drivel from climate change denier Charles Moore to support the bogus headline
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David Attenborough warns politicians 'short-sighted' on climate change
The veteran broadcaster has been speaking at the first UK-wide citizens' assembly on climate change.
Amid climate crisis, investors are starting to put their money towards a sustainable future
Many investors are choosing to funnel their money into investments that address climate change and climate risk, a move that asset managers are rushing to meet the demand.
Bob Ward
Amid climate crisis, investors are starting to put their money towards a sustainable future
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As Trump heads to Doral, Florida Republicans send a message on climate change
GOPers in the land of hurricanes and sunny-day flooding have shifted on global warming.
Blackstone CEO: Tackling climate change is ‘good economics’
Schwarzman says there’s little doubt something ‘very profound’ appears to be happening
Bob Ward
Blackstone CEO: Tackling climate change is ‘good economics’ - Financial News fnlondon.com/articles/black… via @FinancialNews
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Australian bushfires help push forecast 2020 CO₂ rise
A forecast of the atmospheric concentration of carbon-dioxide shows that 2020 will witness one of the largest annual rises in concentration since measurements began at Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, 1958.
Australian bushfires will cause jump in CO2 in atmosphere, say scientists
Fires released vast amounts of carbon dioxide and reduced vegetation, pushing planet closer to point of no return
Davos Doom-mongers herald a new dark age for climate science
Western civilisation has ditched evidence-based rigour for adolescent hysteria
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POLL-Let them speak: Most Americans want witnesses in Trump impeachment trial
USA-TRUMP/IMPEACHMENT-POLL (POLL, URGENT, PIX):POLL-Let them speak: Most Americans want witnesses in Trump impeachment trial
Major shift in UK land use needed to deliver Net Zero emissions
The UK has committed to becoming a Net Zero economy by 2050. Meeting that goal requires a transformation in land use across the UK. Government must confront the rapid changes that are now needed, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says in its...
Bob Ward
Major shift in UK land use needed to deliver Net Zero emissions - Committee on Climate Change
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Factbox: Climate change plans of the leading U.S. Democratic candidates
The leading Democratic candidates all believe climate change is an existential t...
Davos: BP accused of 'going backwards on climate change'
There was a handshake and a meeting of minds between climate activists Prince Charles and Greta Thunberg at Davos on Wednesday, as both attended the summit to press for change.
The Prince made his first speech about the environment in 1968.
His...