Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks

ISBN-13: 9781844076413 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 147 str.

Bert Metz

Opis

Climate change and its impacts can have a very negative influence on people and their economies, and yet social and economic development is the very driver of climate change. This complex relationship necessitates a two-way approach embracing the influence of climate change and policy/strategy/action on development, and the influence of development policies, strategies and decisions on climate change.This special issue of the Climate Policy journal 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. It explores what lessons exist for policy at the national and international level based on experience, research and case studies and looks at how promising options for local policies can be scaled up through international initiatives to enhance their impact.

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.