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UNEP FI article examines key lessons of the IPCC’s latest climate change assessment report

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Published on: 04 March 2022

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Issue Date: 04 March 2022

Published Date: 04 March 2022

Jurisdiction(s): United Kingdom

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The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has published an article examining the conclusions financial institutions should draw from the second part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 6th Assessment Report, which provides ‘an alarming summary of the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change on societies and economies, their vulnerabilities and how we may adapt to inevitable climate change’.

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