Eric D. Beinhocker and Jeremy Oppenheim
Eric Beinhocker is a senior fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute.
Jeremy Oppenheim is director of McKinsey’s Climate Change Special Initiative.
22 February 2009
The world faces two urgent demands. First, the global economy is in crisis and needs to be turned around. Second, scientists tell us that time is running out on tackling climate change and we are putting our planet at risk. The conventional wisdom is that those two demands are competing. The conventional wisdom is wrong.
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