mid the onoin debate about climate chane inestors often fail to appreciate the sheer weiht of scientific eidence attestin to humanit’s impact on the planet‚ Euall the miht not ƒnow where further re„ search is reuired before firm conclusions can be reached about how best to contain or reerse lobal warmin‚ …his paper – authored b Oxford ‡niersit and spon„ sored b ˆictet – seeƒs to ie a brief but firm roundin on the current state of ƒnowlede about climate chane its implications and what sort of solutions miht be possible‚ Šritten in thouhtful clear and unemotie lanuae b ˆrofessor Cameron Hepburn and Moritz Schwarz of the uniersit’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Eniron„ ment it is an important resource for those of us who are not climate chane specialists‚ ‹t addresses seeral contentions – that climate chane is oreword not happenin or that if it is it will be mild – or that Ž in an eent humans are not causin it‚ …he authors also address uestions about the impact of climate chane – whether there miht be benefits the scale of liƒel damae and humans’ abilit to adapt‚ ‹t’s a document we at ˆictet are proud to hae spon„ sored‚ Še understand that climate chane affects all of our futures whereer we are in the world whateer our standin‚ …he better we all understand the settled facts the better we can not onl plan for the future but chane its course for the better‚ Laurent Ramsey Manain ˆartner of ˆictet Œroup
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