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Playing your part in the climate decade How businesses, governments and individuals can collectively combat climate change

For a  chance of limiting global heating to no higher than 1.5C, we need to halve global emissions by 2030. |To achieve this requires businesses, governments and individuals, to play a part. The private sector, needs to be powered by renewable energy and driving electric fleets, no coal in supply chains, fully integrating climate risks and impacts into every company’s finances and using them as a base for decisions and investment in disaster resilience. Politically, policymakers have to be as driven by their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris agreement as much as they are by GDP. It’s something businesses, communities and individuals can all get behind and work together to achieve.This is the goal of inclusive capitalism: using money and investment as a force for good, to create real jobs and better infrastructure to transform the UK’s cities and towns and tackle the biggest issues of our times such as housing, climate change and ageing demographics. Going a lot further than blocking streets, bringing the economic foundations to a standstill, inconveniencing and annoying many who wouldbe able to offer a lead.

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