Energy and environment ministers from the world’s top 20 polluting nations are meeting in Mexico to consider the economic costs of climate change.ย Former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Sternย is expected to say rich nations must cut emissions immediately, and help developing nations adapt.
The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundationโs annual lecture.
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The programme is โyet another bung to industrial productionโ, experts say.
Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.
