WORLD BANK REPORT CALLS FOR "CLIMATE SMART DEVELOPMENT"

The interesting thing of this report is that it strongly correlates an increase in climate change with an higher number of people who would live in poverty.

Stephane Hallegatte, a senior economist and one of the authors of the report says: "We have a window of opportunity to achieve our poverty objectives in the face of climate change, provided we make wise policy choices now"

The report says "Without rapid, inclusive and climate-smart development, together with emissions-reductions efforts that protect the poor, there could be more than 100 million additional people in poverty by 2030".

The World Bank presidents, Jim Yong Kim said"  “This report sends a clear message that ending poverty will not be possible unless we take strong action to reduce the threat of climate change on poor people and dramatically reduce harmful emissions,”  and “Climate change hits the poorest the hardest, and our challenge now is to protect tens of millions of people from falling into extreme poverty because of a changing climate.”

Very importnatly the Report says that the poorest regions in the world, South Asia and Sub Saharian Africa, will be the most hit  by an increase in climate change.

Certainly the report is a call for mainstreaming climate change in development practices and approaches.

John Roome,Senior Director for Climate Change at the World Bank Group, says:  " We have the ability to end extreme poverty even in the face of climate change, but to succeed, climate considerations will need to be integrated into development work. And we will need to act fast, because as climate impacts increase, so will the difficulty and cost of eradicating poverty.

The press release says "The report, released a month before negotiators gather in Paris for international climate talks, shows how ending poverty and fighting climate change can be more effectively achieved if addressed together.

read the full press release here: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/11/08/immediate-push...

read the overview of the report here: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/22787/32963_O...

read the full report here: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/22787/9781464...