Citi Group isn’t the only one to say that fighting climate change is cheaper than doing nothing. The excellent Climate Consensus blog over at The Guardian just reported on some interesting research based on a survey of expert climate economists. Of those economists who had actually engaged substantively with the issue of climate change—meaning they had published on the topic in highly regarded, peer reviewed journals—a full 95 percent of them argue that the United…
95% of expert economists agree: Cutting carbon makes sense
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