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Environmental Lawyer Dan Esty On The Policy Needs To Address Climate Change
Environmental Lawyer Dan Esty at Davos talking about his theory that optimizing trade could be critical to solving climate change.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.