At Deutsche Bank’s shareholder meeting last week, the bank announced an end to its support formountaintop removal mining. In his speech, the bank’s outgoing CEO, Juergen Fitschen, said: “Using explosives to destroy the summits of mountains does not seem to us to be a legitimate or ecologically sensible manner of surface mining. For this reason, […]
This report provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4° Celsius warming within this century. It is a rigorous attempt to outline a range of risks, focusing on developing countries and especially the poor. A 4°C world would be one of […]