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New study suggests investing in preventing climate change is potentially highly lucrative.

10/09/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - World Update, New study suggests investing in preventing climate change is potentially highly lucrative.

Climate change study: 'Invest $1.8 trillion to adapt'

An international study says there are strong economic incentives for governments to invest billions of dollars to adapt to climate change. And; Seventy fires are burning across Queensland and nearly sixty in the neighbouring state of New South Wales. Also;  US media reports say a high level American spy, working in the Kremlin, was removed from Russia in 2017, over concerns that the Trump administration’s alleged mishandling of classified intelligence could expose the individual’s identity.


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