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
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.
risk demand serious
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response
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 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