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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change</span></font></b></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Published September 15, 2010<br>
<br></span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a href="http://go.worldbank.org/FTD88BBDV0" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://go.worldbank.org/FTD88BBDV0</span></font></a> </span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">            Press release: </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://go.worldbank.org/CEYPULJJ00" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://go.worldbank.org/CEYPULJJ00</span></font></a></span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“……Poverty reduction and sustainable development remain core global priorities. </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A quarter of the population of developing countries still lives on less than </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">$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.<br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yet climate change must urgently be addressed. </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A climate-smart world is within our reach if we act now, act together, and act differently than we have in the past:</span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- </span></font></span><b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Acting now </span></font></i></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">is essential or else options disappear and costs increase as the world com­mits itself to high-carbon pathways and largely irreversible warming trajectories.<br>
- <b><i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Acting together </span></i></b>is key to keeping the costs down and effectively tackling both adaptaption and mitigation.<br>- <b><i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Acting differently </span></i></b>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….”<br>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/WDR10-Full-Text.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Complete report</span></font></a> | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Part-I.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Part One</span></font></a> | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Part-II.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Part Two</span></font></a> </span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Overview.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Overview</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-1.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">1. Understanding the links between climate change and development</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Focus-A.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Focus A: the science of climate change</span></font></a><br>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-2.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">2. Reducing human vulnerability: helping people help themselves</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Focus-B.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Focus B: Biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-3.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">3. Managing land and water to feed nine billion people and protect natural systems</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-4.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">4. Energizing development without compromising the climate</span></font></a></span></font></p>

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<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-5.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">5. Integrating development into a global climate regime</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Focus-C.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Focus C: Trade and climate change</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-6.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">6. Generating the funding needed for mitigation and adaptation</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-7.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">7. Accelerating innovation and technology diffusion</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="BACKGROUND: #fafcf3; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/Chapter-8.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">8. Overcoming behavioral and institutional inertia</span></font></a></span></font></p>

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