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Senate Budget Committee Issues Testimony From Columbia University Professor Stiglitz
April 16, 2021
WASHINGTON, April 16 -- The Senate Budget Committee issued the following testimony by Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor of economics at the Columbia University, at a hearing entitled "The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change" on April 15, 2021:

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Thank you for this opportunity to share with you some of my concerns about the large economic costs and huge risks of not taking strong actions now to deal with climate change, and the large benefits of doing so.
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