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

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

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