Ángel Cabrera: Global Leaders Can Be Made

From Nicholas Stern book “The Global Deal“:

The two greatest problems of our time–overcoming poverty in the developing world and combating climate change–are inextricably linked.  Failure to tackle one will undermine efforts to deal with the other: ignoring climate change would result in an increasingly hostile environment for development and poverty reduction, but to try to deal with climate change by shackling growth and development would damage, probably fatally, the cooperation between developed and developing countries that is vital to success. Developing countries cannot ‘put development on hold’ while they reduce emissions and change technologies.  Rich and poor countries have to work together to achieve low-carbon growth; but we can create this growth and it can be strong and sustained.  And high-carbon growth will eventually destroy itself.  We confuse the issues if we try to create an artificial ‘horse race’ between development and climate responsibility.

Posted: 10|26|09 at 9:31 pm.
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