Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world [Paperback]

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.Chapter 1: Climate change and human development 1.1.? Climate change and the links to human development 1.2.? Why we should avoid dangerous climate change  the human development basics 1.3.? Living within our carbon budget  the 21st Century challenge Chapter 2: Climate shocks, risk and vulnerability in an unequal world 2.1. Risk and vulnerability under climate change 2.2. Climate shocks affect more and more people 2.3. Looking ahead  old problems and new climate change risks Chapter 3: Cutting the carbon over-spend  national action and international cooperation 3.1. The key role of international cooperation in carbon mitigation 3.2. Building a global framework for mitigation ? Chapter 4: Adapting to the inevitable  managing climate risks in a warming world 4.1. The national challenge 4.2. International action on adaptation Conclusion

'The Human Development Report 2007/2008 comes at a time when climate change long on the international agenda is starting to receive the very highest attention that it merits. The recent findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have sounded a clarion call; they have unequivocally affirmed the warming of our climate system, and linked it directly to human activity.' Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations

'The Human Development Report 2007/2008 should be mandatory reading for all governments, especially those in the world's richest nations. It reminds us that historic responsibility for the rapid build-up of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere rests not with the world's poor, but with the developed world. It is people in the richest countries that leave the deepest footprint. The average Brazilialc.