Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance?
Climate change threatens all people, but its adverse effects will be felt mostacutely by the world's poor. Absent urgent action, new threats to food security, public health, and other societal needs may reverse hard-fought human developmentgains. Climate Change and Global Poverty makes concrete recommendationsto integrate international development and climate protection strategies. Itdemonstrates that effective climate solutions must empower global development, while poverty alleviation itself must become a central strategy for both mitigatingemissions and reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts.
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Weitere Autoren: Jones, Abigail (Hrsg.) / Purvis, Nigel (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8157-0281-8
- EAN: 9780815702818
- Produktnummer: 4364434
- Verlag: Brookings Inst
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 299 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.9 cm 430 g
- Gewicht: 430
Über den Autor
Lael Brainard served as vice president and director of the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development program, 2006-09. She has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be under secretary of the U.S. Treasury for international affairs.Abigail Jones is a research analyst with Brookings.Nigel Purvis is the president of Climate Advisers and a visiting scholar at Resources for the Future. He is a former senior U.S. climate change negotiator, acting most recently as deputy assistant secretary of state for oceans, environment, and science.
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