Independent: The Doha climate summit agreement which delayed vital action to tackle global warming for another seven years will cost $5 trillion (3.1trn) to remedy, according to research by one of the world's leading climate change scientists.
Delaying until 2020 measures to cut carbon dioxide emissions enough to give the world a fair chance of containing global warming would cost 25 per cent more than taking action to achieve the same reduction now, according to the first research to quantify the financial...