'A one-off in human history': Stern's warning on climate change battle

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Speaking before Paris Summit, expert says Europe must take urgent steps such as ending fossil fuel subsidies and encouraging electric cars

Europe has to step up its effort to combat climate change and wake up to the urgency of the situation, the climate change expert Lord Stern has said before crunch UN talks in Paris later this month...

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