The United Nations' latest Human Development report argues that the world is drifting towards a “tipping point” that could lock the world’s poorest countries and their poorest citizens in a downward spiral, leaving hundreds of millions facing malnutrition, water scarcity, ecological threats, and a loss of livelihoods.
The United Nations' latest Human Development report argues that the world is drifting towards a “tipping point” that could lock the world’s poorest countries and their poorest citizens in a downward spiral, leaving hundreds of millions facing malnutrition, water scarcity, ecological threats, and a loss of livelihoods.
It calls on developed countries to demonstrate leadership by cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% of 1990 levels by 2050. The report advocates a mix of carbon taxation, more stringent cap-and-trade programmes, energy regulation, and international cooperation on financing for low-carbon technology transfer. Regarding adaptation, the report draws attention to extreme inequalities in adaptation capacity.
According to the report, total current spending through multilateral mechanisms on adaptation has amounted to $26 million to date—roughly one week’s worth of spending on UK flood defences. It say that Northern governments should allocate to the developing world at least $86 billion annually by 2015 (around 0.2% of their projected GDP).
Read the press release and find links to the full report here.
"Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world" is attached below.
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