BBCNEWS Business Briefing July 14, 2024
Around the world. We start in the finnish capital, helsinki, where Climate Change is top of the agenda for eu finance ministers as they meet over the next two days. The European Union wants to be the first major economy to go climate neutral by 2050. One of the big ideas under discussion reforming the tax system to give more incentives to clean energy and penalise fossil fuel use. Researchers are warning that 7 of global gdp will be wiped out by the end of the century if no action is taken to reduce carbon emissions. Governments have pledged to limit Global Warming to 1. 5 degrees centigrade a...