Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford Quotes

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If we do not cut emissions, we face even more devastating consequences, as unchecked they could raise global average temperature to 4C or more above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. The shift to such a world could cause mass migrations of hundreds of millions of people away from the worst-affected areas. That would lead to conflict and war, not peace and prosperity.

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
We should remember that the last time global temperature was 5C different from today, the Earth was gripped by an ice age. So the risks are immense and can only be sensibly managed by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which will require a new low-carbon industrial revolution.

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
We also underestimated the potential importance of strong feedbacks, such as the thawing of the permafrost to release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as well as tipping points beyond which some changes in the climate may become effectively irreversible.

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
Climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen.

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford