The World Bank has produced its latest world development report on the theme of development and climate change. It says that developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries.
The World Bank has produced its latest world development report on the theme of development and climate change. It says that developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries.
High-income countries also need to act quickly to reduce their carbon footprints and boost development of alternative energy sources to help tackle the problem of climate change. It says that advanced countries, which produced most of the greenhouse gas emissions of the past, must act to shape our climate future. If developed countries act now, a ‘climate-smart’ world is feasible, and the costs for getting there will be high but still manageable.
A key way to do this is by ramping up funding for mitigation in developing countries, where most future growth in emissions will occur. It stresses that countries need to act now, act together and act differently.
Chapter 3 deals with land, food and agriculture. The chapter highlights the growth in demand for food, the GHG, land and water intensity of meat and dairy products, and our growing demand for them, but does not question the inevitability of this growth. It points to the need for agriculture and aquaculture to deal with: the impacts of climate change on yields, increased water scarcity; and the need to reduce GHG emissions. In essence the chapter deals with four key issues: water; climate change mitigation and adaptation; aquaculture; policies and infrastructure.
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