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

✍ Scribed by Lael Brainard; Abigail Jones; Nigel Purvis

• Publisher: Brookings Inst Press
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Discusses how climate solutions must empower global development by improving livelihoods, health, and economic prospects and how poverty alleviation must become a central strategy for reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts. Draws on expertise to ask how public, private sectors can help the poor manage the global climate crisis"--Provided by publisher.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Front Matter
Table of Contents
Introduction
Double Jeopardy: What the Climate Crisis Means for the Poor
Climate Change Impacts in the Developing World: Implications for Sustainable Development
Toward a New International Climate Change Agreement
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Efforts in China: Progress and Opportunities
Linking Communities, Forests, and Carbon
Integrating Climate Change into Development: Multiple Benefits of Mitigation and Adaptation
Development in the Balance: Agriculture and Water
Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries
Linking Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
The Climate-Security Connection: What it Means for the Poor
Financing Adaptation to a Warmer World: Opportunities for Innovation and Experimentation
Exploring the Potential for Public-Private Insurance to Help the World's Poor to Adapt and Thrive as the Climate Changes
Corporate Action on Climate Adaptation and Development: Mobilizing New Partnerships to Build Climate Change Resilience in Developing Countries and Communities
Contributors
Index