Shock Waves

Mook Bangalore, Stephane Hallegatte, Laura Bonzanigo, Tamaro Kane, Marianne Fay (), Ulf Narloch, David Tréguer (), Julie Rozenberg and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

No 22787 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win” situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.

Keywords: Environment-Climate Change Impacts Environment-Climate Change and Environment Environment-Environmental Disasters & Degradation Environment-Natural Disasters Poverty Reduction-Poverty; Environment and Development Social Protections and Labor-Labor Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4648-0673-5
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