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Employers face a rising climate conundrum
Younger workers in unexpected places are pressing their firms to take serious action on emissions.
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A striking 66 per cent of Gen Z workers and 71 per cent of millennials in South-east Asia said they were pushing their organisations to take action on climate change.
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Pilita Clark
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Not that long ago, I met a lawyer in London named Tom Goodhead who said something that stayed with me.
His firm, Pogust Goodhead, takes class actions against big companies for environmental disasters and he said one reason for its rapid growth was the large number of young lawyers eager to join from older, more established firms that cheerfully defended the same companies.
