The former chief economist to the Treasury, Sir Nicholas Stern, will today deliver a keynote speech to the Royal Economic Society in London on the need for urgent action to combat climate change.
His speech comes days before a major climate summit in Bali which will be attended by environment ministers from across the world. Meanwhile the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, overseen by the Prince of Wales, today unveiled a Bali communiqué to which many of the world's leading brands are signatories.