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Fiddling while Rome burns the 3trn cost of climate delay change delay
2013-01-13 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The Doha climate summit agreement which delayed vital action to tackle global warming for another seven years will cost $5 trillion (3.1trn) to remedy, according to research by one of the world's leading climate change scientists. Delaying until 2020 measures to cut carbon dioxide emissions enough to give the world a fair chance of containing global warming would cost 25 per cent more than taking action to achieve the same reduction now, according to the first research to quantify the financial...
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