Act Now, Act Together, Act Differently
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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
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