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Climate Change May Trigger Global Recession
London (AFP) Oct 26, 2006 Climate change may have an adverse impact on the global economy in the long run and lead to the worst global recession in recent history, a report to be released next week will warn, The Guardian reported on Thursday. Citing comments made by David King, the British government's chief scientific adviser, the newspaper reported that the report by Nicholas Stern, a former World Bank chief economist, will argue that fighting global warming will save industrialised nations money. "All of (Stern's) detailed modelling out to the year 2100 is going to indicate first of all that if we don't take global action we are going to see a massive downturn in global economies," King was quoted as saying. "If no action is taken we will be faced with the kind of downturn that has not been seen since the great depression and the two world wars." Stern's "analysis, I think, will also surprise many people in terms of the relatively small cost of action," King said. The contents of Stern's report, commissioned by the British finance ministry and due for release on Monday, have been kept secret since being revealed to the world's environment ministers at a conference in Mexico earlier this month. "The massive investment programme that's ahead of us is an opportunity for us to move towards a zero carbon energy system. The investment process is going to act quite possible in the opposite direction to an economic downturn," he said.
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US Economy Will Grow Slowly And Not Sink Into A Recession
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2006Varied economic indicators produced by The Conference Board are now pointing to slow growth ahead in the U.S., but not a recession, according to an analysis released today by The Conference Board, the global research and business membership organization. |
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