Gummer on the tectonic shift in approaches to climate change

John G, Planning, 17 November 2006

The Stern report changes everything. There is no new science, just the cold deduction of an economist who tells us that the cost of doing nothing about climate change will be vast compared to taking action now to avoid its worst excesses.

The government's sudden commitment to a climate change bill, together with the Conservatives' already published bill, make the tectonic shift clear. Politics will not be the same again and every...

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