Discussion of Climate Change: Sir Nicholas Stern

Sir Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank, issued his 700-page report for the British government in October of 2006. The widely-discussed report outlines the effects of climate change on the world economy, in addition to recommending early action and suggesting guidelines for global policy.

  • gecko

    This would be a good time and place to ask why the speakers and economists Nicholas Stern, Joseph Steiglitz, and Jeff Sachs are not broadly advocating large scale elimination of cars from the world’s major cities providing immediate benefit to the inhabitants and users of these cities and provide a clear path for large scale mitigation of human induced climate change.

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