The impact of climate change: "End of development"?

Summary:

A most serious and thought-provoking addition to the debate on the development challenges posed by a failure to address climate change comes from the editor of the renowned World Disasters Report, and the policy director of the New Economics Foundation.

"...They argue that human development faces potentially the biggest U-turn in its history....."

The argument is underlined by a research report on the impact of climate change in South Africa, produced at the Centre for Energy and Development Research at the University of Cape Town.

The policy response is mirrored in a recent consultation draft on reducing the vulnerability of the poor, produced by the World Bank.