Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks

ISBN-13: 9781138002098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 147 str.

Bert Metz; M. Kok J. T.

Opis

The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. In practice, some development aims, such as poverty alleviation, enhancing energy security and access or improving health, also have potential climate benefits. The challenge is to find a broadly applicable range of effective policies and actions that realize development objectives and at the same time result in real climate benefits. This title focuses on new evidence that identifies options for action, examining how development strategies, policies and decisions can be made more sustainable by integrating climate change considerations and overcoming the barriers that hinder implementation.

Spis treści

Integrating Development and Climate Policies * Integrating Development and Climate Policies: National and International Benefits * Methods for Quantifying Benefits of Sustainable Development Policies and Measures (SD-PAMs) * Bilateral and Multilateral Financial Assistance for the Energy Sector of Developing Countries * Financing the Integration of Climate Change Mitigation into Development * Adaptation and the Poor: Development, Resilience and Transition * Adapting Development Cooperation to Adapt to Climate Change * Climate Adaptation from a Poverty Perspective * Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Lessons from Country Studies * Brazilian Transport Initiatives with GHG Reductions as a Co-benefit

O autorze

Bert Metz and Marcel Kok are senior researchers at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in the programme on Global Sustainability. Bert Metz is also co-chairman of the Working Group on Climate Change Mitigation of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.