Governments keep failing to tackle climate change. Maybe they should stop trying

Perhaps privately developed technologies could do their bit instead

Seven years after his landmark 2006 report on the costs of ignoring climate change, Lord Stern confessed that he'd been wrong , and had underestimated the size of the task.

"The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected," he said in 2013, "and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought."

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