As we speak, key figures from industry, World Leaders and even a few celebs are all descending on the alpine ski resort of davos. At this years World Economic forum, Climate Change is the hot topic of the week. Attending this year will be president trump, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and top executives from firms including google, netflix, coca cola but is there the will to tackle the issue . Theres clearly a business impact, a report by the imf and Cambridge University found that if temperature continue to rise by 0. 04 degrees every year, for the next 80 years peoples wealth on average will 7 lower compared to if action is taken. However its not all bad news, the Global Commission on adaptation has calculated that a 1. 8 trillion investment over the next decade in measures to adapt to Climate Change, could produce benefits worth more than 7 trillion. Well to get more on this, the bbcs Sally Bundock is in davos for us this week and sent this report. World leaders chief exec
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Across the north sea, that is introducing fresher air to east anglia and southeast england and ultimately will knock the temperatures down by a few degrees. Hello and welcome to audiences this is how the weather looks in the uk and around the world. At the moment, though. Cloudy for northern scotland, the number of people still got some rain around who have died from covid 19 at the moment but it will tend in the United States has now officially exceeded 100,000. To ease over the coming hours. Elsewhere its a largely dry the numbers may well picture, a little bit of low be higher than that, cloud, a lot of mist but it is clear that and fog patch in the past three months towards coastal areas more americans have died from infection than during of lincolnshire. The korean war, the vietnam war and the conflict in but otherwise, clear spells iraq combined. For most and a fresher feel but the number of new cases has to the weather slowed and more states across some of these are lifting thei
The number of people who have died from covid i9 in the United States has now officially exceeded 100,000. The actual numbers are likely to be higher than that, but it is clear that in the past three months, more americans have died from infection than during the korean war, the vietnam war and the conflict in iraq combined. But the number of new cases has slowed and more states are lifting their lockdowns, to ease the economic impact. 0ur north america correspondent, aleem maqbool, reports from washington. Happy birthday to you. Friends and relatives of more than 100,000 people in america can nowjust cling to the memories of happier times before the coronavirus. My father was a really caring person. He just wanted to help people and he was really outgoing. He thought he was really funny. Doug was one of the first confirmed deaths back on the first of march. As somebody who lost someone so close to them and was someone obviously very, very dear to you so early on, when you saw the way
Hello to you. The number of people who have died from covid 19 in the United States has now officially exceeded 100,000. The actual numbers are likely to be higher than that, but it is clear that in the past three months more americans have died from infection than during the korean war, the vietnam war and the conflict in iraq combined. But the number of new cases has slowed and more states are lifting their lockdowns to ease the economic impact. 0ur north america correspondent, aleem maqbool, reports from washington. Happy birthday to you. Friends and relatives of more than 100,000 people in america can nowjust cling to the memories of happier times before the coronavirus. My father was a really caring person. And he just wanted to help people and he was really outgoing. He thought he was really funny. Doug was one of the first confirmed deaths back on the first of march. As somebody who lost someone so close to them and was someone obviously very, very dear to you so early on, when