Climate Action to Unlock the Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century

@article{Bhattacharya2021ClimateAT,
  title={Climate Action to Unlock the Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century},
  author={Amar Bhattacharya and Maksym Ivanyna and William H. Oman and Nicholas Stern},
  journal={IMF Working Papers},
  year={2021}
}
Climate change is a major threat to the sustainability and inclusiveness of our societies, and to the planet’s habitability. A just transition to a low-carbon economy is the only viable way forward. This paper reviews the climate change challenge. It stresses the criticality of systems changes (energy, transport, urban, land use, water) in a climate-challenged world, and the importance of infrastructure investment geared toward such systems changes. The key policies to enable the transition are… 
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