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Financial systems must consider extreme weather, or risk condemning millions to die
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its extraordinary how the financial markets that pride themselves on their data analysis and forecasting have such a blind spot when it comes to the impacts of climate change. I was reminded of this by a new report released today from the Royal Society, which calls on our global financial systems to start considering the risks posed by extreme weather, or risk condemning millions of people to die. The failure of financial institutions to focus on the dangers comes despite increasing numbers...
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