ISBN:
9780230547049
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (400 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Human Development Report
Parallel Title:
Print version Human Development Report 2007/2008 : Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World
DDC:
304.25
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Overview: Fighting climate change: human solidarity in a divided world; Chapter 1 The 21st Century climate challenge; Chapter 2 Climate shocks: risk and vulnerability in an unequal world; Chapter 3 Avoiding dangerous climate change: strategies for mitigation; Chapter 4 Adapting to the inevitable: national action and international cooperation; Notes; Bibliography;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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