斯特恩报告尽人皆知的断言全球变暖引发的损失将占GDP的5-20 % ， 并称这是“与大规模战争和二十世纪上半叶经济衰退规模类似”的重大破坏。
That report famously valued the damage caused by global warming at 5-20% of GDP – a major disruption “on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the twentieth century.”