Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance? » (New Edition)

Lael Brainard is vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development (Global) program at the Brookings Institution. Abigail Jones is a research analyst with Brookings Global. Nigel Purvis is president of Climate Advisers, a strategic consulting firm, as well as a nonresident scholar at Brookings and a visiting scholar at Resources for the Future.

Climate change will inflict damage on every continent, but it will hit the world's poor disproportionately hard. Whatever hard-fought human development gains have been made may be impeded or reversed by climate change as new threats emerge to water and food security, agricultural production and access, and nutrition and public health.
Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance? draws on expertise from the climate change and development communities to ask how the public and private sectors can help the world's poor manage the global climate crisis.

Increasingly, climate change and development are two sides of the same coin. Effective climate solutions must empower global development by improving livelihoods, health, and economic prospects, while poverty alleviation itself must become a central strategy for both mitigating emissions and reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts.

Contributors include Jessica Ayers (London School of Economics), Manish Bapna (World Resources Institute), Ian Burton (University of Toronto), Joshua Busby (University of Texas),Thea Dickinson (Clean Air Partnership), Elliot Diringer (Pew Center on Global Climate Change), Kristie Ebi (ESS, LLC), Ned Helme (Center for Clean Air Policy), Saleemul Huq (International Institute for Environment and Development), Michael Jenkins (Forest Trends), Heather Kaplan (Oxfam America),Vinca LaFleur(WestWingWriters), Heather McGray (World Resources Institute), Robert Mendelsohn (Yale), Jane Nelson (Harvard),Anthony Nyong (African Development Bank), Raymond Offenheiser (Oxfam America),Atiq Rahman (Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies), and DavidWaskow (Oxfam America).

1 Double jeopardy : what the climate crisis means for the poor Abigail Jones Jones, Abigail Vinca LaFleur LaFleur, Vinca Nigel Purvis Purvis, Nigel 10

2 Climate change impacts in the developing world : implications for sustainable development Anthony Nyong Nyong, Anthony 43

3 Toward a new international climate change agreement Elliot Diringer Diringer, Elliot 65

4 Greenhouse gas mitigation efforts in China : progress and opportunities Ned Helme Helme, Ned 79

5 Linking communities, forests, and carbon Michael Jenkins Jenkins, Michael 87

6 Integrating climate change into development : multiple benefits of mitigation and adaptation Atiq Rahman Rahman, Atiq 104

7 Development in the balance : agriculture and water Robert Mendelsohn Mendelsohn, Robert 120

8 Public health adaptation to climate change in low-income countries Kristie L. Ebi Ebi, Kristie L. 130

9 Linking adaptation and disaster risk reduction Saleemul Huq Huq, Saleemul Jessica Ayers Ayers, Jessica 142

10 The climate-security connection : what it means for the poor Joshua W. Busby Busby, Joshua W. 155

11 Financing adaptation to a warmer world : opportunities for innovation and experimentation Manish Bapna Bapna, Manish Heather McGray McGray, Heather 181

12 Exploring the potential for public-private insurance to help the world's poor to adapt and thrive as the climate changes Ian Burton Burton, Ian Thea Dickinson Dickinson, Thea 207

13 Corporate action on climate adaptation and development : mobilizing new partnerships to build climate change resilience in developing countries and communities Jane Nelson Nelson, Jane 223

14 Mobilizing action for climate change adaptation inthe North and South Heather K. Coleman Coleman, Heather K. Raymond C. Offenheiser Offenheiser, Raymond C. David Waskow Waskow, David 260

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Index 287