Cape Town — The world's leading climate change economist, Sir Nicholas Stern, is "very impressed" with how South Africa's cabinet ministers are grappling with the problems caused by global warming, or climate change.
And while he notes that Africa will bear the brunt of the impacts of unavoidable climate change over the next 20 years or so - because of its geographical location, the poverty of many of its people and the physical structure of wind movements - he predicts that South Africa will play "a big part" in new international negotiations that could help reduce long-term impacts.
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