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Nicholas Stern Biography

Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, CH FRS FBA FAcSS (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He is professor of economics and government and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE), and 2010 Professor of Collège de France. Since 2013, he has been President of the British Academy.

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Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen. . . We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

Century, Market, Risk, Two Worlds, War, World

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.

Domestic, Environmental, Global, Impact, Scale, War

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Climate, Play, Roulette, Russian, Two

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

Career, Careers, Interesting, Kept, Opportunity, Plan

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

Assume, Assuming, Failing, Guaranteeing, Way

I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.

Attitude, Change, Drinking, Driving, People

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.

Atmosphere, Business, Carbon, Coming, Looking, Risk

We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

Greenhouse, Half, Risk, Roughly, Run, Running

Give up meat to save the planet.

Climate Change, Give, Giving Up, Meat, Save

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Challenges, Democracy, Health, Policy Making, Questioning, Thrive

A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.

Choices, Dumbed, Giving Up, Planet, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Diet

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

Fascism, Father, Fighting, Hands, Obvious, Threat

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

Climate, Demand, Demands, Evidence, Global, Risk

The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

Already, Climate, Impact, Sign, Storm

You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.

Country, Depend, Down, Floods, Water, Weather

I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption. ' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.

Climate, Consumption, Mean, People, Poses, Thinking

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

Climate, Data, Enormous, Ice, Time, Years

The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.

Climate, Conclusions, Heat, Robust, Simple, Trap

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

Avoid, Climate, Impact, Strong, Time

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

Effect, Effects, Greenhouses, Observe, People, Yes

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