Top news of the week: 08.09.2021.
Climate
Could climate change trigger a financial crisis?
The clearer governments are about emissions reduction, the less likely financial turbulence becomes | Finance & economics
An Urgent Call To High-Emitting Sectors: It’s Time For Climate Action
When the top players in a sector make strong climate commitments with time-bound, science-based, short- and medium-term targets, peer companies are pulled along through a competitive ...
Nicholas Stern to be awarded Bernhard Harms Prize by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre...
Powering Nature
WWF’s new framework, which considers the structural barriers and enablers for nature-based solutions, offers ideas and evidence on how to boost nature’s potential to tackle the greatest ...
Study reveals extreme winter weather is related to Arctic change
A new study shows that the frequency of polar vortex disruptions that is most favorable for extreme winter weather in the United States is increasing, and that Arctic change is likely ...
Madagascar faces one of the world's first climate change famines
As the African island nation experiences a food-security crisis driven by global warming, researchers say it is an alarm bell for the world
Addressing the ‘triple crisis’ COVID-19, climate change and nature loss: a catalyst for business to increase its sustainability?
The role played by businesses will be critical in helping the world to tackle current crises and 'build back better' – and there is lots of evidence that companies that prioritise ...
Research Associate – Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
Research Associate – Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, SEI Asia, Bangkok, Thailand