PHM-Exch> World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change

Wed Sep 16 10:23:58 PDT 2009

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>  *World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change*
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> *Published September 15, 2010
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> *Website: http://go.worldbank.org/FTD88BBDV0
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>             Press release: http://go.worldbank.org/CEYPULJJ00
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> *“……Poverty reduction and sustainable development remain core global
> priorities. *A quarter of the population of developing countries still
> lives on less than $1.25 a day. One billion people lack clean drinking
> water; 1.6 billion, electricity; and 3 billion, adequate sanitation. A
> quarter of all developing country children are malnourished. Addressing
> these needs must remain the priorities both of developing countries and of
> development aid—recognizing that development will get harder, not easier,
> with climate change.
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> *Yet climate change must urgently be addressed. *Climate change threatens
> all countries, with developing countries the most vulnerable. Estimates are
> that they would bear some 75 to 80 percent of the costs of damages caused by
> the changing climate. Even 2°C warming above preindustrial temperatures—the
> minimum the world is likely to experience—could result in permanent
> reductions in GDP of 4 to 5 percent for Africa and South Asia. Most
> developing countries lack sufficient financial and technical capacities to
> manage increasing climate risk. They also depend more directly on
> climate-sensitive natural resources for income and well-being. And most are
> in tropical and subtropical regions already subject to highly variable
> climate.
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> *Economic growth alone is unlikely to be fast or equitable enough to
> counter threats from climate change, particularly if it remains carbon
> intensive and accelerates global warming. *So climate policy cannot be
> framed as a choice between growth and climate change. In fact, climate-smart
> policies are those that enhance development, reduce vulnerability, and
> finance the transition to low-carbon growth paths.
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> *A climate-smart world is within our reach if we act now, act together,
> and act differently than we have in the past:*
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> - *Acting now *is essential or else options disappear and costs increase
> as the world commits itself to high-carbon pathways and largely
> irreversible warming trajectories.
> - *Acting together *is key to keeping the costs down and effectively
> tackling both adaptaption and mitigation.
> - *Acting differently *is required to enable a sustainable future in a
> changing world. In the next few decades, the world’s energy systems must be
> transformed so that global emissions drop 50 to 80 percent….”
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> *Advance Press Edition, still subject to ﬁnal changes
> (ﬁnal Report due out in late October)*
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> Download options for the World Development Report 2010.
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> (To read these PDF files, you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader<http://www.adobe.com/>
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> Overviews (multilingual)
> English<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Overview.pdf>,
> Arabic<http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2010/0,,contentMDK:21969137~menuPK:5287748~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:5287741,00.html#%23>,
> Chinese<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Overview-chinese.pdf>,
> French<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Overview-French.pdf>,
> Portuguese<http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2010/0,,contentMDK:21969137~menuPK:5287748~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:5287741,00.html#%23>,
> Russian<http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2010/0,,contentMDK:21969137~menuPK:5287748~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:5287741,00.html#%23>,
> and Spanish<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Overview-Spanish.pdf>
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> *Table of Contents & front matter<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Front-matter.pdf>
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> Complete report<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/WDR10-Full-Text.pdf>
>  | Part One<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Part-I.pdf>| Part
> Two<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Part-II.pdf>
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> Overview<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Overview.pdf>
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> 1. Understanding the links between climate change and development<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-1.pdf>
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> Focus A: the science of climate change<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Focus-A.pdf>
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>  *Part I*
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> 2. Reducing human vulnerability: helping people help themselves<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-2.pdf>
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> Focus B: Biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Focus-B.pdf>
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> 3. Managing land and water to feed nine billion people and protect natural
> systems<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-3.pdf>
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> 4. Energizing development without compromising the climate<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-4.pdf>
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> *Part II*
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> 5. Integrating development into a global climate regime<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-5.pdf>
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> Focus C: Trade and climate change<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Focus-C.pdf>
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> 6. Generating the funding needed for mitigation and adaptation<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-6.pdf>
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> 7. Accelerating innovation and technology diffusion<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-7.pdf>
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> 8. Overcoming behavioral and institutional inertia<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-8.pdf>
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> Glossary<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Glossary.pdf>
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