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‘All we hear from Michael O’Leary is climate change denial’

Nick Stern is quoted in this Irish Times article about Ryanair and carbon offsetting. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/all-we-hear-from-michael-o-leary-is-climate-change-denial-1.3165416

Gov. Brown's cap-and-trade compromise is a giveaway to the very polluters causing climate change

A letter from Nick Stern was published in the LA Times ahead of the senate vote in California on whether to extend the state’s cap and trade system. The system enforces limits on carbon emissions and requires polluters to obtain permits for emissions. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-brown-cap-and-trade-20170717-story.html

New book from Former RBI Governor YV Reddy

Any governor of the Reserve Bank of India must walk a tightrope. He must seem to be independent - but without offending the government of the day. He is not equal to the government but must convince others that he is not subordinate to it either. And if he can do all this with the right policies in place, he may leave behind a career as illustrious as that of Dr Y.V. Reddy, Governor of the RBI from 2003 to 2008, a time of high growth, low inflation, an appreciated rupee and a robust banking system that withstood the global financial crisis. http://www.amazon.in/Advice-Dissent-Life-Public-Service/dp/9352643003

Stern on Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

Professor Stern was interviewed for the BBC series 100 + days about President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (from 18 minutes). http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08xq9xv/100-days-series-1-12072017