There is a need to intensify global efforts ahead of the next UN summit in Durban
Two internationally renowned economists have raised concerns over the current complacency about the scale of global efforts needed to combat climate change.
Writing in the Financial Times yesterday, Dr. Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA), and Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the LSE, said that there were worrying signs at the recent World Economic Forum of lacklustre concern from policymakers as to the scale of the climate change challenge.
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