The period following 2030 is likely to witness an accelerating deterioration in the world environment because of climate change, but opportunities to prevent it are rapidly diminishing.
The implications for public and private enterprises are already well known. There is an extensive body of laws regulating the emissions of greenhouse gases in many countries, and large investors regularly build climate risks into assessments of their clients’ non-financial position.
A background briefing is attached that provides an update on how the impacts of climate change are progressing. It analyses three environmental issues facing the world’s population:
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- the way in which the planet is heating, and its environmental and social consequences
- the nature of the greenhouse gas emissions driving the phenomenon and their future patterns
- concerns about measures that use land management projects to capture and sequester greenhouse gases as an alternative to preventing their emission in the first place.
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