Secrets of the Pioneers: Lord Nicholas Stern on green cities, 'going negative', and the mirage of a 'one shot story'

Madeleine Cuff
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Economist and author of the Stern Review is convinced the green economy offers the only powerful growth story around

Lord Nicholas Stern is the chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the Stern Review, a seminal report commissioned...

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