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Business Weekly: Climate change: a time to act

Climate change: a time to act

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Report calls for rapid action by government and business

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report calls for rapid action by government and business.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has given a bleak assessment of the crisis facing the planet and urges drastic action by government and business to curb emissions to slow global warming. Nick Molho, executive director of the climate-minded business alliance, the Aldersgate Group, gives his assessment of the challenges ahead and outlines his vision for a low carbon, greener world. We go to Sierra Leone in West Africa to hear from a young student, Jeremiah Thoronka, who has found a way to bring electricity to his rural community using kinetic energy.  
Have you ever wondered how some technology companies rack up huge valuations despite never turning a profit? Investigative journalist and author Elliot Brown tells us that the lessons of WeWork have not been learnt, and we hear how neurodiverse staff can be an asset to the workplace and why a global timber shortage could scupper your plans to build a garden shed.
Business Weekly is presented by Vishala Sri-Pathma and produced by Clare Williamson
(Image: Firefighter silhouetted against orange flames of the Bootleg fire, Oregon, Image credit: NWCG / US Forest Service)

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