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Carbon Emission Reduction and Climate-Proofing Construction

Duration: 5:44 17 Oct 2013

Series of Expert Discussions and Book Launch on “Economics of Climate Change in East Asia”

Gordon Hughes, University of Edinburgh, explains the different costs associated with the different options of reducing carbon emission. He also stresses that climate proofing, which makes infrastructure less vulnerable to climate change, can mitigate threatening outcomes.

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