[MCN] Fortune magazine on climate change

[Lance Olsen]

Opening paragraphs: As groups of Extinction Rebellion <https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/24/18511491/climate-change-protests-london-extinction-rebellion> protestors glued themselves to public transit and closed down large swathes of central London last week <https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/15/uk/extinction-rebellion-climate-protest-london-gbr-intl/index.html> in a series of demonstrations that continued Thursday, a very different group was gathering just a couple hours’ train journey away in Paris.

They, too, were meeting to discuss the impact of climate change, what they would do about it, and to send an urgent message to the world.

They just so happened to be some of the world’s largest central banks.

“No country or community is immune,” read an open letter <https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/april/open-letter-on-climate-related-financial-risks> signed by Bank of England’s governor Mark Carney, Bank of France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau, and Frank Elderson, who chairs the Network for Greening the Financial System and serves as an executive director at the Dutch central bank. “The prime responsibility for climate policy will continue to sit with governments. And the private sector will determine the success of the adjustment. But as financial policymakers and prudential advisors, we cannot ignore the obvious risk before our eyes.”

Central Banks Are the World's Newest Climate Change Activists
http://fortune.com/2019/04/26/climate-change-central-banks/ <http://fortune.com/2019/04/26/climate-change-central-banks/>

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"Forests of the Americas and the Caribbean are undergoing rapid change as human populations increase ….. 80% of the forest types and 85% of the current forest area is potentially threatened”

Open access article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12623

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