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Business Matters: UN report calls for "rapid, deep and immediate" changes to combat climate change

UN report calls for "rapid, deep and immediate" changes to combat climate change

05/04/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, UN report calls for "rapid, deep and immediate" changes to combat climate change

The IPCC report calls for changes to how we travel, eat and heat our homes.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report calls for fundamental changes to our patterns of consumption of fossil fuels, and for a major expansion of renewable energy. We speak to Charlie Kronick, senior climate adviser at Greenpeace, and ask how economies are being affected by climate change, and are likely to be impacted in the future. 
Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since the 1940s, which has now triggered a political crisis. The president has had to swear in a brand new cabinet after 26 ministers resigned en masse. To what extent is this a political or economic crisis, and what can the president do to quell the anger of protestors?  
Also in the programme, a special report from the BBC's Rahul Tandon, who speaks to young Russians who have decided to either leave Russia or stay in the country following the invasion of Ukraine and the economic fallout of international sanctions. Russia's economy is forecast to shrink by 8% this year.
And after Elon Musk buys a 9% stake in the social media platform Twitter, we ask James Clayton, BBC North America technology reporter, what it did to the company's share price.

Jamie Robertson is joined throughout the programme by Professor Peter Morici, economist at the University of Maryland, and by Yoko Ishikura, professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

(Picture: A wind turbine. Credit: Getty Images)

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