Act Now, Act Together, Act Differently
Today's enormous development challenges are complicated by the
reality of climate change—the two are inextricably linked and
together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all
countries, but particularly developing ones. Understanding what climate
change means for development policy is the central aim of the World
Development Report 2010. It explores how public policy can change to
better help people cope with new or worsened risks, how land and water
management must adapt to better protect a threatened natural
environment while feeding an expanding and more prosperous population,
and how energy systems will need to be transformed.
The report is an urgent call for action, both for developing
countries who are striving to ensure policies are adapted to the
realities and dangers of a hotter planet, and for high-income countries
who need to undertake ambitious mitigation while supporting developing
countries efforts. A climate-smart world is within reach if we act
now to tackle the substantial inertia in the climate, in
infrastructure, and in behaviors and institutions; if we act
together to reconcile needed growth with prudent and affordable
development choices; and if we act differently by investing in
the needed energy revolution and taking the steps required to adapt to
a rapidly changing planet.
In the crowded field of climate change reports, WDR 2010
uniquely:
- emphasizes development
- takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation
- highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape and
how to seize them
- proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the
context of the political
- economy of reform
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview: Changing the climate for development
Chapter 1: Understanding the links between climate change and
development
Chapter 2: Reducing human vulnerability: helping people help
themselves
Chapter 3: Managing land and water to feed nine billion people
and protect natural systems
Chapter 4: Energizing development without compromising the
climate
Chapter 5: Integrating development into the global climate
regime
Chapter 6: Generating the funding needed for mitigation and
adaptation
Chapter 7: Accelerating innovation and technology diffusion
Chapter 8: Overcoming behavioral and institutional inertia
"The World Bank has produced earlier reports that include
coverage of climate issues related to sustainable development: the 1992
report Development and the Environment and the 2008 report Agriculture
for Development (CH, May'08, 45-4765), each of which reviewed to
some extent the impact of climate change on human well-being. Devoting
an entire report to climate change could not be timelier, as major
emitters of greenhouse gases balked over signing the 2009 Copenhagen
Accord. Many books published recently have focused on climate change
and its effects on human society. This report brings together and
interprets climate data on a broad range of issues relating to human
health and behavior, natural disasters, food and water security,
natural resource management, and technology innovations that can be
adopted by the developing world. It provides essential reading on
energizing development without compromising the climate; managing
resources for sustainable human populations while protecting natural
systems; and financing climate mitigation and adaptation. Scientific
concepts are clearly explained, with a careful review on the science of
climate change, and color illustrations provide excellent visual
representation of complex issues. A helpful glossary, a detailed index,
and an exhaustive reference list for each chapter enhance the text.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/collections."
— A. S. Ricker, Oberlin College, Reviewed
in June 2010 CHOICE.
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