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Nicholas Stern

December 2023

  • Prime minister Rishi Sunak in Lincolnshire before Christmas.

    Sunak under fire for ‘inexplicable’ failure to appoint new climate committee chief

    Experts say prolonged delay in replacing chair signals that government does not take net zero policy seriously enough and is harming investment

January 2023

  • Larry Elliott Economics editor

    Economics viewpoint
    What we learned at Davos: signs of hope emerge from the pessimism

    Larry Elliott Economics editor
    Prospects for artificial intelligence and green transition fuel sense that the only way is up for the global economy

November 2022

  • A home in Corozal, Puerto Rico, ruined by Hurricane Maria, September 2017

    Could Barbados blueprint be a Marshall Plan for the climate crisis?

  • Solar panels arranged in concentric circles around a tower and power plant in a desert expanse

    Developing countries ‘will need $2tn a year in climate funding by 2030’

October 2021

  • Prof Nicholas Stern warned that many economic assessments of the climate crisis “grossly undervalue the lives of young people and future generations”.

    Climate crisis: economists ‘grossly undervalue young lives’, warns Stern

    Economists have failed to take account of ‘immense risks and potential loss of life’, says author of landmark review

August 2021

  • Nicholas Stern

    UK can’t fight climate crisis with austerity, warns expert

    Author of government study says Treasury resistance to green spending programmes could halt progress to net zero

June 2021

  • G7 leaders gather in Carbis Bay, Cornwall

    Calls for G7 spending restraint misguided, warns Lord Stern

    ‘Premature austerity will threaten growth’ as world recovers from Covid-19, says climate economist

August 2020

  • Escalator at Paddington station with a masked figure painted on to the steps

    Easing Covid limits early 'could inflate deaths and deepen recession'

    Experts say government must not risk pitting the economy against public health

March 2020

  • two Virgin rail trains

    Spend £8bn to kickstart plan to decarbonise economy, chancellor told

    Report says Rishi Sunak has unique opportunity to invest in zero-carbon infrastructure

November 2017

  • Representatives of The Big Shift Global protest against the financing of fossil fuels, offering delegates the chance to put chocolate coins into either a green piggy bank representing green energy, or a brown piggy bank representing fossil fuels, at COP23 in Bonn, Germany, 14 November 2017.

    Nicholas Stern: ministers must pass 'Trump test' at Bonn climate talks

    Leading climate economist says world leaders must move forward without the US on crucial issues in the closing days of the UN summit

May 2017

  • The aim of a steep tax on carbon would be essential to meet the targets set by the Cop21 Paris Agreement in 2015, the experts said.

    Sky-high carbon tax needed to avoid climate catastrophe, say experts

    Leading economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern say taxes of $100 per metric tonne could be needed by 2030

December 2016

  • Donald Trump speaks at rally in Baton Rouge

    Nicholas Stern: Donald Trump may not be as bad for the environment as feared

    Environmentalists should be alert but not pessimistic over the impact of Trump’s presidency, says the leading climate economist

November 2016

  • Nicholas Stern

    Nicholas Stern: cost of global warming ‘is worse than I feared’

    Ten years ago the leading economist warned about climate change in a landmark report – he says while there is cause for optimism, the picture is still grim

October 2016

  • Professor Lord Nicolas Stern

    10 years on from the Stern report: a low-carbon future is the 'only one available'

    Economist says green development is the only route to global economic growth and points to China leading the world on climate change action

December 2015

  • Jim Yong Kim President of the World Bank

    World Bank president celebrates 'game changer' Paris talks

    Jim Yong Kim joins host of powerful figures lauding ‘extraordinary’ talks undertaken in French capital

November 2015

  • Smog envelops buildings on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi

    Urban age at 10
    Climate change and cities: a prime source of problems, yet key to a solution

    Ahead of the COP21 UN climate summit, Nicholas Stern and Dimitri Zenghelis argue that the choices cities make today on transport and industry will determine whether the world can benefit from resource-efficient growth

September 2015

  • British economist and academic Lord Nicholas Stern

    Moral case to tackle climate change overwhelming, says Lord Stern

    Rome conference speech describes inaction as discrimination that devalues lives of future generations

August 2015

  • Lord Stern

    Lord Stern hits out at claims about cost of climate cuts

    There is no conflict between economic growth and action on climate change, ambassadors told in Paris

July 2015

  • Commuters struggle through the smog in Delhi. India’s air pollution costs an estimated one million lives a year.

    Benefits far outweigh costs of tackling climate change, says LSE study

    Improved air quality, energy efficiency and energy security, plus falling cost of renewables among extra gains of reducing global emissions, says Fergus Green

May 2015

  • Nicholas Stern (right) speaks to the French president, François Hollande, before an official lunch during climate finance day at the presidential palace in Paris on 21 May.

    World leaders missed chance to tackle climate change, says economist

    Nicholas Stern tells the Hay festival the global economic crisis was a perfect opportunity to make progress on climate change – and we missed it
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