Assessing the impacts of climate change: A literature review

Climate change is expected to have significant implications for the world economy and for many areas of human activity. A main conclusion of the review is that there are large uncertainties, which are not fully reflected in existing estimates of global impacts of climate change in monetary units.

Economic Survey of Finland 2010: Coping with the job crisis and preparing for ageing

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