'Climate change will be expensive, potentially devastatingly so': Why reaching net zero is an economic priority

Cecilia Keating
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Cost of climate change could hit $30tr a year by 2075 - upwards of five per cent of GDP - according to major new survey from Institute for Policy Integrity

While the economic case for not acting to address the climate crisis has been rigorously debunked in recent years as renewable energy costs have nosedived and the financial toll of ever-intensifying extreme...

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