Mother Jones
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This story originally appeared in the Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Finance is full of big numbers, and for almost every big number, there is another, even bigger number it should be compared to.
Climate change is no different. As world leaders meet for climate talks in Paris, here’s the big number: In 2014, the world invested $391 billion in low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure. And here’s the even bigger number: We should actually be spending $7 trillion dollars a year for the next decade, and even more later.
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