India Environment Portal Knowledge for change

Poverty and climate change: reducing the vulnerability of the poor through adaptation

• 01/12/2009
• The World Bank

Climate change is a serious risk to poverty reduction and threatens to undo decades of development efforts. As the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development states,

• Attachments:
  • poverty and climate change-dec.pdf
• Tags:
  • UNFCCC
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Impacts
  • Climate Adaptation
  • Poverty
  • Sustainable Development
  • Developing Countries

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