What we do today about climate change has consequences that will last a century or more. The part of that change that is due to greenhouse gas emissions is not reversible in the foreseeable future. The heat trapping gases we send into the atmosphere in 2008 will stay there until 2108 and beyond. We are therefore making choices today that will affect our own lives, but even more so the lives of our children and grandchildren. This makes climate change different and more difficult than other policy challenges.
Climate change is the defining human development issue of our generation. All development is ultimately about expanding human potential and enlarging human freedom. It is about people developing the capabilities that empower them to make choices and to lead lives that they value. Climate change threatens to erode human freedoms and limit choice. It calls into question the Enlightenment principle that human progress will make the future look better than the past.
#ClimateChange #ThreatToHumans #ChallengeOfClimateChange #InternationalAndNationalEfforts
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Keywords:
CLIMATE, CLIMATOLOGY, GLOBAL WARMING, GREENHOUSE GASES, LAND-USE CHANGE, SEA LEVEL, WEATHER MODIFICATION, CLIMATIC CHANGE, ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATIC ZONES, HUMIDITY, PRECIPITATION, WEATHER, DEVELOPMENT ASPECTS, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION.
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UNDP
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Social and Institutional Developoment
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16.07.00
- Meteorology
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