Click on the link below to watch an interesting lecture by Lord Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, on the dual issue of managing climate change and overcoming poverty. Stern is the author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, a 700-page report released in October 2006 on the effects of climate change on our global economy. According to Bill McKibben, the Stern Review was "the most thorough review of the economics of global warming yet undertaken....it drew praise from many of [Stern's] brethren in the field--and it also drew gasps of shock and horror from anyone who bothered to read it. It laid out, quite clearly, the cost of doing too little or moving too late on climate change: economic damage that would be greater than WWI, WWII, and the Great Depression combined."

Click here to learn more about the economics of climate change:
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