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Business Matters: China faces extreme flooding

Picture: A flooded road in Zhengzhou. Picture credit: EPA.

22/07/2021 GMT

China faces extreme flooding

BBC World Service - Business Matters, China faces extreme flooding

Following several extreme weather events we ask if businesses can adapt to climate change.

Zhengzhou, a central Chinese city, with 10,000,000 inhabitants has been paralysed by record-breaking floods and more rain in one day than it usually gets in a year.  So how the climate crisis be tackled? We get analysis from Micheal Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University and the author of The New Climate War.  Also in the programme, UNESCO has decided to strip Liverpool of World Heritage status, saying new developments resulted in a "serious deterioration" of the historic site. But do these titles mean that much to a city’s prospects or prosperity? We get analysis from Liam Thorp of the Liverpool Echo newspaper. And Peter Jankovskis brings us the latest news from the financial markets.. Also in the programme, UNESCO has decided to strip Liverpool of World Heritage status, saying new developments resulted in a "serious deterioration" of the historic site. But do these titles mean that much to a city’s prospects or prosperity? We get analysis from Liam Thorp of the Liverpool Echo newspaper. Also in the programme, to visit a French museum, gallery or cinema from today, you will need a Covid passport demonstrating vaccination, a recent negative test, or recovery from coronavirus in the past six months. Foulques d'Aboville is administrator of the Jacquemart-Andre museum in Paris, and gives us his reaction to the development. Plus, the BBC's Nisha Patel reports on the potential future economic impact of school coronavirus closures on the next generation of the world's workforce, whose education was impacted since the start of the pandemic. And we're joined throughout the programme in Manilla by Karen Lema, Reuters Bureau Chief for the Philippines and in Washington DC, activist and financial reform advocate Alexis Goldstein.  


(Picture: A flooded road in Zhengzhou. Picture credit: EPA.)

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