What could a Paris climate deal do for energy efficiency?

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It won't come in December, but Richard Black reckons a global climate deal will boost investment in 'low carbon stuff'

Logically, a deal at this December's UN climate summit in Paris should lead to different stuff being built, compared with a future without a climate deal. (Practically, that's largely how climate change...

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