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Posts tagged climate change
2024-05-16 at 10:38 Timo Löyttyniemi
The green transition presents a major global challenge, which has recently been aggravated by a number of new obstacles. Geopolitics has affected policy-makers’ priorities, high interest rates are creating uncertainty among investors, and global...
2022-12-15 at 16:36 Timo Löyttyniemi
The past few years have been marked by a series of unexpected crises. Covid-19 set in quickly without warning, shaking up economies and business as usual in 2020 and translating the risk of a pandemic into reality. Just when we were recovering...
2021-12-01 at 16:32 Timo Löyttyniemi
Investors play an important role in combatting climate change. However, this role is often not what it is widely believed to be. Fact is that investors do not normally produce or manufacture anything. Even so, investors wield influence in several...
2021-09-08 at 16:05 Timo Löyttyniemi
Phenomena stemming from climate change are attracting widespread attention. Last summer events such as floods in Central Europe and forest and bush fires across the world made it clear that insurance policies fail to cover all loss and damage....
2021-03-12 at 12:17 Timo Löyttyniemi
Now it is clear: Bill Gates is a wise man. Recently, he published a book entitled ”How to avoid a climate disaster: The solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need”. He doesn’t complain or brag. He doesn’t blame others or criticise. He...