Human development report 2007/2008 : fighting climate change : human solidarity in a divided world

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Author:

United Nations Development Programme.

ISBN:

9780230547049

Publication Information:

New York : United Nations Development Programme : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Physical Description:

xvi, 384 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Contents:

Fighting climate change: human solidarity in a divided world -- The 21st Century climate challenge -- Climate shocks: risk and vulnerability in an unequal world -- Avoiding dangerous climate change: strategies for mitigation -- Adapting to the inevitable: national action and international cooperation.

Corporate Subject:

United Nations Development Programme.

Subject Term:

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.

Global warming -- Economic aspects.

Global warming.

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

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United Nations Development Programme.

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Summary

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.