New global commission connects climate change policy with results

As evidence mounts of human-induced climate change, a new global commission has been launched that will analyze the economic costs and benefits of acting on climate change.

TheGlobal Commission on the Economy and Climatecomprises leaders from government, finance and business from 14 countries, chaired by Felipe Calderón, Mexico's former president.

The commission is launching theNew Climate Economy project, bringing together some of the world's foremost economic experts to examine how stronger economic performance can be supported by good climate policy.

The $8.9 million project aims to contribute to the global debate about economic policy, and to inform government, business and investment decisions.

"Climate impacts are rising and the evidence of warming is increasingly clear, but most economic analysis still does not properly factor in the increasing risks of climate change or the potential benefits of acting on it," said Calderón.

"We need urgently to identify how we can achieve economic growth and job creation while also reducing emissions and tackling climate change."

全球经济和气候委员会是一组七个国家设立的独立倡议：哥伦比亚，埃塞俄比亚，印度尼西亚，韩国，挪威，瑞典和英国。五大洲的研究机构的伙伴关系将进行分析。

"At a time when governments throughout the world are struggling to boost growth, increase access to energy and improve food security, it is essential that the full costs and benefits of climate policies are more clearly understood," said Lord Nicholas Stern, vice-chair of the commission and author of the "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change."

The report, produced for the British government in 2006, was the first study to put a price tag on the cost of inaction on climate change.

"It cannot be a case of either achieving growth or tackling global warming," Stern said. "It must be both."

In addition to President Calderón, members of the commission, all of whom are serving in a personal capacity, include:

• Ingrid Bonde, Vattenfall CFO and deputy CEO
• Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation
• Helen Clark, head of the U.N. Development Program and former prime minister of New Zealand
• Daniel Doctoroff, chief executive officer and president of Bloomberg L.P.
• Luísa Diogo, former prime minister of Mozambique
• S. (Kris) Gopalakrishnan, Infosys executive vice-chairman and president of the Confederation of Indian Industry
• Chad Holliday, Bank of America chairman
• Sri Mulyani Indrawati, World Bank managing director and COO and former finance minister of Indonesia
• Ricardo Lagos, former president of Chile
• Trevor Manuel, minister and chair of the planning commission and former finance minister of South Africa
• Takehiko Nakao, Asian Development Bank president
•Paul Polman，Unilever CEO
• Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, IMF deputy managing director
•尼古拉斯勋爵斯特恩，伦敦经济学院教授
• Zhu Levin, China International Capital Corporation president and CEO

世界领先的经济学家咨询小组，包括诺贝尔奖获奖者Daniel Kahneman，将对该工作进行专家审查。

The research institutes in the partnership are the Climate Policy Initiative, Ethiopian Development Research Institute, Global Green Growth Institute, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Stockholm Environment Institute, Tsinghua University and World Resources Institute.

The project will engage directly with key decision-makers in finance ministries and with major businesses and investors, including leading economic organizations, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. It will also invite contributions from a wide variety of academic, business and other institutions.

新的气候经济项目将于2014年9月发布其综合分析，这是2015年巴黎新国际气候协定的谈判谈判前一年。然后，委员会将直接向政府，财务和经济部门进行调查结果和建议遍布全球的部长，商业领袖和投资者。

This article originally appeared atGlobe-Net.

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