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PARIS: Climate change driven by rich countries will cause mortality among poor nations to skyrocket, Nobel prize winning economist Esther Duflo warned in an interview, calling for a global tax. The world has already warmed an average of nearly 1.2C since the mid-1800s, according to a report by global climate scientists released earlier this week, unleashing a devastating cascade of …

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