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Viewpoint: Green risks and rewards – grounds for optimism

By Steve Howard

Published: June 3 2009 19:20 | Last updated: June 3 2009 19:20

The world is taking a temporary holiday from growth. But the economy will bounce back, doubling or tripling in size by mid-century.

Over the same period we will have developed policy frameworks that lock us into reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 60 to 80 per cent. There will be about 2bn more people and the world’s urban population will have almost doubled.

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