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- Summary:
- This document presents strategies for fusing mitigation, adaptation, and development strategies, policy objectives that have traditionally been pursued separately, in order to implement climate compatible development. Climate compatible development is based on pursuing a ‘triple win’ strategy of reducing the negative impacts of climate change while maximizing development possibilities in a low emission, climate resilient context. For the authors, climate change and adaptation to this phenomenon are restructuring aspects of human society, from trade and production to population distribution and risk, presenting both challenges and opportunities. One of the daunting tests of this moment is the harmonization of different societal goals, for example, balancing the need to feed a rapidly growing world population while addressing concerns with water scarcity, energy conservation, and emissions reduction. While in an ideal situation policy-makers would take into account the potential tradeoffs between different policy responses to climate change, the reality is that these decisions are inherently political. Specific choices will benefit specific interests to the detriment of others, therefore creating tensions between short-term political calculations and the urgency of establish long-term adaptation and development strategies. It is here that the document calls for building broad-based consensus around agreed targets, inscribing them into national regulatory and budgetary frameworks, and establishing international agreements that hold national policy-makers politically accountable for meeting stated goals. According to the authors, the fact of rising transportation costs, extreme temperatures, and unpredictable rainfall volumes and distributions around the world, have led to questions regarding the long-term viability of export-led economic growth, particularly in the agricultural sector. Climate change and adaptation to it is creating new winners and losers both within and between countries. In this changing reality it is imperative that policy-makers make important decisions regarding adaptation. The authors believe that the countries that will fare best are the ones that move towards low emission, technologically innovative, and climate resilient development strategies. ( English )
- Subject:
- Climate Change Adaptation ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Mitchell, T., & Maxwell, S. (2010). Defining climate compatible development. UK Department of International Development (DFID), Climate & Development Knowledge Network.
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- Florida Internataionl University
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- FI13042413
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