Welcome to the United Nations
Climate Protection and Development
edited by Rob Vos, Richard Kozul-Wright
and Frank Ackerman
The climate and development crises will be solved together, or not at all. And the faster we begin, the less painful—and more possible—the solutions will be. Writing about climate change often falls into one of two opposite traps, both of which this book avoids. This is not a story of gloom and doom, of inevitable climate catastrophe. On the contrary, it spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. But neither is it a story of complacent congratulations for "win-win" initiatives, cautiously incremental steps, and "green" consumer choices. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty-first century, to bold initiatives with big costs—and much bigger benefits. The book presents an abridged version of the research undertaken for the World Economic and Social Survey 2009: Promoting Development, Saving the Planet.
