Lord Stern: West must end hesitation over climate change

The need to shift economies onto a lower carbon route and to acknowledge the direct links between the resilience of ecosystems and that of national economies were highlighted by the Prince of Wales at opening on the 9 February 2011 of the European Parliament's Low Carbon Prosperity Summit in Brussels. European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, Commission President José Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy all advocated using low-carbon technologies to build prosperity. A further speaker was Lord Stern, an economist at the London School of Economics who authored a significant report in 2006 on the costs of climate change.