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

Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance?
ISBN-10
0815703813
ISBN-13
9780815703815
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
307
Language
English
Published
2009-10-01
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Authors
Lael Brainard, Nigel Purvis, Abigail Jones

Description

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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