In this article Louise Pryor, Roelof Coertze and Tim den Dekker overhear a surprising conversation implying that we are more worried about the solvency of our insurers than about the safety of our planet.
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Holistic Retirement Planning and Financing Green Home Retrofits
In today’s world we face a multitude of challenges, including the rising cost of living, the need for stronger retirement savings, the need for more optimal provision of retirement benefits, and of course the urgent need to decarbonise our economy. In this article Neil Dissanayake and Gowri Kotur introduce the case for alternative thinking that could provide some help in addressing these pressing concerns. They consider a variety of questions from two main perspectives.
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By Louise Pryor
In order to meet the net zero goal that supports the Paris Agreement, global emissions will have to be drastically reduced over the coming years. In fact there is a limit on the remaining amount of emissions that the atmosphere can absorb before the global temperature rise will move above the agreed bounds – this limit is the remaining carbon budget. Global emissions will have to be cut drastically to stay within the budge. The question that this paper considers is how the remaining carbon budget should be allocated, and what might be considered “fair” in this context.
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By Colin Wilson and Alastair Gilg
There is much debate about how the UK can secure the necessary investment to deliver the transition to net zero needed to mitigate climate change and how it can be financed. In this paper we look at Government policy and recent commentary from the Climate Change Committee to ask if more needs to be done.
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