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Climate cost 'to be �300bn a year'

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The costs of dealing with the effects of climate change will be far higher than current estimates, a new analysis suggests.

Lead author Martin Parry, a visiting research fellow with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, discusses whether governments will be willing to invest £300bn a year to cope with climate change.

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