Lord Stern: On market failures, World Wars, and the 'only growth story on offer'

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Ten years on from the publication of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and fresh from picking up the lifetime achievement gong at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards, Lord Nicholas Stern...

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