The Coming Climate Crash

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Date of Publication: June 21, 2014

Year of Publication: 2014

Publication City: New York City, NY

Publisher: The New York Times Company

Author(s): Henry M. Paulson Jr.

Newspaper: The New York Times

Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession.

Drawing on his work with finance and government, Henry Paulson Jr. considers how we can apply lessons from the 2008 Recession to how we are now approaching climate change:

The nature of a crisis is its unpredictability. And as we all witnessed during the financial crisis, a chain reaction of cascading failures ensued from one intertwined part of the system to the next. It’s easy to see a single part in motion. It’s not so easy to calculate the resulting domino effect.

See the new report from the Risky Business Project here: Risk Business, The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States.

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