Climate change will inflict damage on every continent, but it will hit the world's poor disproportionately hard. 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.
Lael Brainard served as vice president and director of the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development program, 2006-09. She has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be under secretary of the U.S. Treasury for international affairs. Abigail Jones is a research analyst with Brookings. Nigel Purvis is the president of Climate Advisers and a visiting scholar at Resources for the Future. He is a former senior U.S. climate change negotiator, acting most recently as deputy assistant secretary of state for oceans, environment, and science.
" Climate Change and Global Poverty provides a much needed blueprint for overcoming the two great crises of our time. This book defines what needs to be done and how to do it. It is a welcomed resource." --Helene D. Gayle, President and CEO, CARE USA " Climate Change and Global Poverty is an urgently needed source of excellent analysis and compelling ideas. We no longer have the luxury of viewing climate change and poverty as disconnected, and this book spurs us to tackle two of the greatest challenges of our time with informed and innovative solutions." --Nancy Lindborg, President, Mercy Corps "This book breaks new ground by showing how solutions to climate change and global poverty are intertwined. The authors define what needs to be done with refreshing clarity, and offer practical recommendations that are at once idealistic and yet firmly grounded in political realities and national interests." --Frank Loy, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
" Climate Change and Global Poverty provides a much needed blueprint forovercoming the two great crises of our time. This book defines what needs tobe done and how to do it. It is a welcomed resource." Helene D. Gayle, President and CEO, CARE USA |" Climate Change and Global Poverty is an urgently needed source of excellentanalysis and compelling ideas. We no longer have the luxury of viewing climatechange and poverty as disconnected, and this book spurs us to tackle two ofthe greatest challenges of our time with informed and innovative solutions." Nancy Lindborg, President, Mercy Corps |"This book breaks new ground by showing how solutions to climate changeand global poverty are intertwined. The authors define what needs to be donewith refreshing clarity, and offer practical recommendations that are at onceidealistic and yet firmly grounded in political realities and national interests." Frank Loy, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
