(Credit: AP Photos/Maneesh Bakshi, File) The economist Nicholas Stern, who became world famous for his 2006 report on the dramatic but foreseeable consequences of climate change, spoke on November 2 at the Veolia Institute’s 10th conference in Oxford, England, “Resource Availability in a Low-Carbon World”. The Conversation France asked him about recent developments in the transition of the world toward an economy adapted to climate change. Two years after the Paris Agreement, what do you see as key issues – positive or negative – in the fight against climate change? Over the past two years, we have seen a continuation of the remarkable changes in the technology relating to energy generation and storage and transport, such as further falls in the costs of renewables.