Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance?

by Lael Brainard (Editor)

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Climate change threatens all people, but its adverse effects will be felt most acutely by the world's poor. Absent urgent action, new threats to food security, public health, and other societal needs may reverse hard-fought human development gains. Climate Change and Global Poverty makes concrete recommendations to integrate international development and climate protection strategies. It demonstrates that effective climate solutions must empower global development, while poverty alleviation itself must become a central strategy for both mitigating emissions and reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts.
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311 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2009

Reviews

[Anthony · Rating 2 out of 5]

Surface layer surveys covering a range of climate change / development intersections. If you're already familiar with some of the climate change literature, you'd be better off reading new IPCC AR5 sections. This collection is simply too laden with repeated statements like "we need to develop capacity-building programs," "transparency and inclusiveness are essentials for success", and "mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning is challenging" for this to be a more useful volume. However, I highly recommend Busby's piece on climate change and security - by far the best piece in this collection.

[Jessica Locke · Rating 1 out of 5]

Booooooooooooring.