Demoted: UN finally throws global warming under the bus: UN now says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'
UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'. Goods and services from the natural world should be factored into the global economic system, says UN biodiversity report. The economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powerful than the argument for tackling climate change, a major report for the United Nations will declare this summer. The Stern report on climate change, which was prepared for the UK Treasury and published in 2007, famously claimed that the cost of limiting climate change would be around 1%-2% of annual global wealth, but the longer-term economic benefits would be 5-20 times that figure. [VIA: Climate Depot]