Climate News Weekly: Decarbonizing Industry, Europe's Deadly Air, and more | Climate Now Episode 115

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - President Biden's Climate Corps
02:16 - Decarb Connect
06:50 - Rishi Sunak rolls back UK climate goals
07:40 - Climate risk impacting insurance providers
09:19 - Bad air quality in Europe

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From a new White House climate jobs training program that echoes the Civilian Conservation Corp of the FDR era, to UK’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rolling back carbon reduction targets, global leaders are taking a stance after the UN’s Climate Week in New York. Also, big industry is grappling with finding low-carbon business models that can outlive government subsidies, a close examination of climate risk is imperiling the US home insurance market, and the EU gets a dose of reality about the extent to which they are overdosing on air pollution.
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