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Study co-authored by Lord Stern argues governments should focus on building public support for strong carbon pricing, rather than limiting themselves to economic arguments. https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news-analysis/3036766/polluter-pays-how-can-governments-build-public-support-for-carbon-taxes

Nicholas Stern has argued that a carbon price should be set high, at around $40-80 per ton of carbon dioxide by 2020, and $50-100 by 2030 to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement. Without a carbon price, the economy responds to powerful interests at the expense of building a cleaner world for everyone. http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/398650-the-rich-can-survive-on-a-polluted-planet-the-poor-cannot-a-carbon

Earlier this year Lord Nicholas Stern was named as President of the Royal Economic Society for 2018/19, "It is a great honour to be elected as President of the Royal Economic Society. The Society dates back nearly 130 years and plays an important role in supporting the work of economists and promoting economics in the UK and around the world." http://www.res.org.uk/details/news/10944510/Lord-Stern-and-Rachel-Griffith-confirmed-as-the-new-President-and-President-elec.html

Last Friday, Pope Francis called for nothing less than "a financial paradigm shift" in order to tackle climate change. His comments, made at a conference hosted by the Vatican and uniting business people, policy-makers of different stripes, indigenous leaders, academics and young people, could not be more timely: humanity is at a turning point. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/here-are-the-economic-reasons-to-act-on-climate-change-immediately

Lord Stern spoke at a lecture discussing the future and importance of sustainable infrastructure at the AIIB’s third Annual Meeting in Mumbai. https://www.aiib.org/en/news-events/events/annual-meeting/program/detail/lecture-infrastructure.html

Lord Stern participated in a roundtable on 'Sustainable Cities Strategy' at AIIB’s third Annual Meeting in Mumbai. The objective of AIIB Roundtable for Sustainable Cities Strategy is a close-door consultation with stakeholders on the Bank’s preparation of Sustainable Cities Strategy, focusing on how AIIB could better support infrastructure development of cities in Asia. https://www.aiib.org/en/news-events/events/annual-meeting/program/detail/sustainable-cities-strategy.html