# Professor Robert Engle shares his views on the UN talks addressing climate change

1 Faculty News November 19, 2015 ![The Atlantic logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031336.jpg?itok=T4ciY3Gl)>

Excerpt from [The Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/a-clash-over-the-paris-climate-talks/416715/) -- "'It’s not a very well informed debate,' said [Robert Engle](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-engle), a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a Nobel Laureate in economics. 'Ultimately there are going to be enormous costs involved. The costs to business and society I think are likely to be enormous. Even so far as saying that life as we know it can’t survive, that’s the ultimate risk.'"

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