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If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

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As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

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The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

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We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.

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I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

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To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.

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It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this... it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

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We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: April 22nd, 1946

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