And his State Department appointed an envoy, Todd Stern, to discuss climate change with other countries.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cited the Stern Review extensively in the Fourth Assessment Report, which purported to present the consensus views on climate-change science and mitigation options in 2007.
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Todd Stern, her new envoy for climate change, will be accompanying Clinton on the trip.
Sir Nicholas Stern's mammoth report on climate change made a powerful case for cutting carbon emissions immediately.
Indeed, among economists (like Lord Stern) this actually is the climate change consensus.
In 2006, Sir Nicolas Stern released The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, a 700-page report prepared for the British government.
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Meanwhile, the recent Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change states that "declining crop yields ... could leave hundreds of millions without the ability to produce or purchase sufficient food", reports The Food Magazine.
The Stern Review radically changed the discussion of climate change economics.
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The second point on which economists take issue with Lord Stern is his estimate of the cost of mitigating climate change.
Stern is the chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and also chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at Leeds University.
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Sir Nicholas Stern, asked by Gordon Brown to examine the economics of climate change, backs the technology.
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Indeed, the report is seen by some as a sort of mini-manifesto on transport for Mr Brown, serving the same function that the Wanless and Stern reviews did to win support for health spending and measures to tackle climate change.
University College London (UCL) climatologist Mark Maslin called it "the Stern report for medics", referring to the 2006 review that outlined the future impacts of the climate change situation in economic terms and advocated comprehensive, early-stage action to address it.
Stern argued that a lower discount-rate was supported by inter-generational equity and the risk of climate catastrophes.
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One more thing on this point: the Stern Review, the most detailed model, the most detailed modelling exercise anyone has undertaken, of the effects of climate change is based upon that A2 model.
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