Economist Nicholas Stern evaluates the economic future, and the essential steps we must take to protect growth and reduce poverty while managing climate change. The future Stern outlines is optimistic and pragmatic; he believes we have the capacity and creativity to change. But we need the will...

The Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), both agreed in 2015, provide a new basis for international cooperation and development. In the two agreements, there is now a common platform for the next phase of the fight against poverty. The SDGs make it...

'To slow or not to slow' (Nordhaus, 1991) was the first economic appraisal of greenhouse gas emissions abatement and founded a large literature on a topic of great, worldwide importance. In this paper we o ffer our assessment of the original article and trace its legacy, in particular Nordhaus'...