Author: Dr Arthur Linke

The renowned World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2020 Risk Report featured all of the Top-5 global risks as being climate-related risks. These included: Extreme Weather, Climate Action Failure, Natural Disasters, Biodiversity Loss and Human-Made Environmental Disasters. At this time of pandemic crisis, we must reiterate the significance of climate risk, and that we need not look far enough to remember the many acute examples of climate risks materialising. The wildfire disaster devastation on all continents except Antarctica in the past several years comes to mind, with the Knysna Fires, South Africa’s single largest ever environmental disaster economically being a particular local…

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