Climate change, caused primarily by humans, is a real phenomenon, and a report from over 2,000 scientists confirms that immediate measures need to be taken to reduce the pollutants that cause it, said an insurance executive.
"There is much higher confidence and conviction that much of the CO2 increase and the temperature increase of the past fifty years is due to human activity," said Ivo Menzinger, head of sustainability with Zurich-based insurer Swiss Re.
"There were still some critics in the past saying that there were other reasons for this increase, but these myths were actually debunked [by this report],"according to Mr. Menzinger.
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