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Book SynopsisThe evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for urgent action is compelling. This book addresses the two greatest challenges of our time â averting catastrophic climate change and eradicating poverty â and the close interconnections between them.
Climate Change and Development provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary foundation for understanding the complex and tangled relationship between development and climate change. It argues that transformational approaches are required in order to reconcile poverty reduction and climate protection and secure sustained prosperity in the twenty first century. Section One provides the building blocks for understanding climate science and the nexus between climate and development. Section Two outlines responses to climate change from the perspective of developing countries, with chapters on international agreements, climate change mitig
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"This book is therefore a very useful summary of current debates about climate change and development, based on an initial framing of the problem in terms of global greenhouse gas concentrations." – Progress in Development Studies, Tim Forsyth, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Science, Drivers and Impacts of Climate Change Chapter 2. The Climate Development Nexus Chapter 3. The International Climate Change Regime Chapter 4. Mitigation Responses and Low-emissions Development Chapter 5. Adaptation Responses and Building Climate Resilient Development Chapter 6. Climate Finance: Moving from Development Cooperation to Climate Cooperation Chapter 7. Development and Climate Action in a Changing World Chapter 8. Alternative Development Futures: Pathways to Climate-smart Development Chapter 9: Conclusion: This Make-or-break Decade
