Avoiding dangerous climate change will require considerable global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A daunting challenge, but one that is practically and economically achievable, argues Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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Stern, N. The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2007).
IPCC Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability; www.ipcc.ch/SPM13apr07.pdf.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development
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Sachs, J. Averting disaster: at what cost?. Nature Clim Change 1, 6–7 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/climate.2007.3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/climate.2007.3
