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

by Brainard, Lael; Jones, Abigail; Purvis, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780815702818
• ISBN10: 0815702817
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

Climate change will inflict damage on every continent, but it will hit the world's poor disproportionately hard. Whatever hard-fought human development gains have been made may be impeded or reversed by climate change as new threats emerge to water and food security, agricultural production and access, and nutrition and public health.Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance? draws on expertise from the climate change and development communities to ask how the public and private sectors can help the world's poor manage the global climate crisis.Increasingly, climate change and development are two sides of the same coin. Effective climate solutions must empower global development by improving livelihoods, health, and economic prospects, while poverty alleviation itself must become a central strategy for both mitigating emissions and reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts.Contributors include Jessica Ayers (London School of Economics), Manish Bapna (World Resources Institute), Ian Burton (University of Toronto), Joshua Busby (University of Texas),Thea Dickinson (Clean Air Partnership), Elliot Diringer (Pew Center on Global Climate Change), Kristie Ebi (ESS, LLC), Ned Helme (Center for Clean Air Policy), Saleemul Huq (International Institute for Environment and Development), Michael Jenkins (Forest Trends), Heather Kaplan (Oxfam America),Vinca LaFleur(WestWingWriters), Heather McGray (World Resources Institute), Robert Mendelsohn (Yale), Jane Nelson (Harvard),Anthony Nyong (African Development Bank), RaymondOffenheiser (Oxfam America),Atiq Rahman (Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies), and DavidWaskow (Oxfam America).

Author Biography

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 Brooking. 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Double Jeopardy: What the Climate Crisis Means for the Poor	p. 10
Climate Change Impacts in the Developing World: Implications for Sustainable Development	p. 43
Toward a New International Climate Change Agreement	p. 65
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Efforts in China: Progress and Opportunities	p. 79
Linking Communities, Forests, and Carbon	p. 87
Integrating Climate Change into Development: Multiple Benefits of Mitigation and Adaptation	p. 104
Development in the Balance: Agriculture and Water	p. 120
Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries	p. 130
Linking Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction	p. 142
The Climate-Security Connection: What It Means for the Poor	p. 155
Financing Adaptation to a Warmer World: Opportunities for Innovation and Experimentation	p. 181
Exploring the Potential for Public-Private Insurance to Help the World's Poor to Adapt and Thrive as the Climate Changes	p. 207
Corporate Action on Climate Adaptation and Development: Mobilizing New Partnerships to Build Climate Change Resilience in Developing Countries and Communities	p. 223
Mobilizing Action for Climate Change Adaptation in the North and South	p. 260
Contributors	p. 277
Index	p. 287
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