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World Service,21 Jul 2021,26 mins

China faces extreme flooding

World Business Report

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Following several extreme weather events we ask if businesses can adapt to climate change. Victoria Crawford is from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Also in the programme, to visit a French museum, gallery or cinema from today, you will need a Covid passport demonstrating vaccination, a recent negative test, or recovery from coronavirus in the past six months. Foulques d'Aboville is administrator of the Jacquemart-Andre museum in Paris, and gives us his reaction to the development. The electric car maker Tesla says it will open up its 25,000 strong global network of fast chargers to electric cars made by other companies. Jaap Burger of the Regulatory Assistance Project in the Netherlands advises governments on how to decarbonise their economies, and tells us how significant a move this is by Tesla. Plus, the BBC's Nisha Patel reports on the potential future economic impact of school coronavirus closures on the next generation of the world's workforce, whose education was impacted since the start of the pandemic. (Picture: A flooded road in Zhengzhou. Picture credit: EPA.)

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