Climate change doubles cost of growth

We are fast approaching the opening of the Rio+20 conference that will allow governments to take stock of past efforts, as well as look to the future.

And with business-as-usual making the ground under our feet tremor now more than ever before, with billions of people still in abject poverty and with environmental depletion and greenhouse emissions at an all-time high, one cannot help but conclude that this is not what we all want.

As the only steward of Mother Earth, the human race needs to double up its efforts.

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