Debating Climate Economics: The Stern Review vs. Its Critics Report to Friends of the Earth-UK
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In 2005, British Chancellor Gordon Brown asked Sir Nicholas Stern to conduct a major review of the economics of climate change, as a guide to developing government policy. Stern is a well-respected, established economist: he has been the chief economist at the World Bank, the second permanent secretary of HM Treasury, and the head of the (UK) Government Economic Service. It is not a background that suggested he would make radical new departures in his latest report.
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