Asset managers flocked to raise their concerns following the findings of the UN climate change report, emphasising their own role in fighting the climate crisis.
The study, by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, collated and reviewed information from over 14,000 studies and found that the global surface temperature was slightly over one degrees celsius higher in the decade between 2011-2020 than between 1850-1900, with the past five years being the hottest on record. While the damning 3949 page report was overwhelming to many, Eoin Murray, head of investment at the International Business of Federated Hermes, highlighted that there was hope to be found in it. "The most important piece of the latest IPCC report must be that we are ...
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