The emissions market failure that still threatens the planet

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Nearly 20 years ago, the economist Nicholas Stern, in a groundbreaking report for the UK government, memorably called climate change “the biggest market failure in history”. That sadly remains largely true. Emissions costs are still mostly loaded on to the planet rather than…