Anders Wijkman, Chair of Climate-KIC, and Stefan Nyström, of the Swedish Environment Protection Agency, agreed, noting that economic modelling and cost-benefit analysis, particularly in the long-term, was inherently unreliable as current models lacked the capacity to anticipate innovation, among other things.iiEnvironment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, Official Report, 30 October 2018, Col 29
Other witnesses noted the scale of the task, while Dave Moxham of the Just Transition Partnership suggestediiEnvironment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, Official Report, 15 November 2018, Col 28 that undertaking a cost benefit analysis of mitigating climate change could be a role for the Just Transition Commission.
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