Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
ISBN-10
0230598501
ISBN-13
9780230598508
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2007-11-29
Publisher
Springer
Author
United Nations Development Programme

Description

This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget, and how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into a downward spiral of deprivation.

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