In 2006, his report had made a lot of noise. Sir Nicholas Stern wrote in an extensive document, produced for the british government, that the impact of global warming would be comparable to the world wars or the crisis of 1929. The economist estimated that there were over 5 000 billion euros the cost of inaction. Since then, the crisis of the Covid-19, and the containment have again upset the economies of the world. To The Point, Nicholas Stern, a professor at the London School of Economics and former vice-president of the world Bank, discusses the consequences of the epidemic for the…

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Khanh Renaud

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