Stranded Assets a Response: Myth or Reality?

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Late last year respected British economist Dieter Helm dismissed the concept of "stranded assets" as a hollow theory - Now Carbon Tracker's Paul Spedding explains why the risk of 'stranding' may indeed be right on the money

Dieter Helm's paper Stranded Assets - a deceptively simple and flawed idea itself relies on two simple and therefore highly questionable assumptions: 1) Action on climate change can't affect demand...

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