Sea level rise, climate disclosure, regulatory rollbacks, protests, and deforestation key issues to watch

Verisk Maplecroft’s 2020 Environmental Risk Outlook delves into the latest developments and unpacks some of the primary issues shaping the way organisations do business in the months and years ahead.

2020 was supposed to be a transformational year for the environment. The end date of a raft of corporate sustainability goals, the year when the curtain falls on Kyoto, and the Paris Agreement officially kicks into gear. But now we’re here, it’s clear business and governments are falling short of what needs to be achieved. Over the last 12 months alone, we’ve seen and huge swathes of the Amazon Australia on fire, Typhoon Idai claim more than 900 lives in southern Africa, while record temperatures became the new norm around the world.

The next decade is crucial in how business delves its relationship with the environment and in what steps governments take to secure the future against the impacts of climate change and the degradation of our natural capital. We’re already seeing pathways emerge at the start of this pivotal year.

Discover this year’s Environmental Risk Outlook through our insights and webinars.

https://www.maplecroft.com/insights/webinars/ 

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