Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, FRS, FBA is a British economist and academic. He is I. G. Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, and 2010 Professor of Collège de France. Since 2013, he has been President of the British Academy...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth22 April 1946
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claim extension foreign
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.
change climate denied deny exist hiv link people understood
Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.
risk atmosphere rising
Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then
war moving talking
...what we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move...
risk demand serious
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response
climate climate-change market-failure
Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen
war impact environmental
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.
two-sides challenges together
Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.
policy-making challenges democracy
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
world claims foreign-policy
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.
giving-up vegetarian-diet choices
A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.
technology self support
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.
country growth world
Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.
fuel coal scales
If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.