Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Economic &Social AffairsDESA Working Paper No. 56ST/ESA/2007/DWP/56 October 2007 Climate Change and Sustainable DevelopmentTariq Banuri and Hans OpschoorTariq Banuri is Director, Future Studies Program, Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI-Boston, USA and a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy. E-mail: Opschoor is Professor of Sustainable Development Economics, Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy. E-mail: should be addressed by e-mail to the is paper argues that in the future the primary focus of policy research and global agreements should be the de-carbonization of economic Development . Consequently, instead of treating Climate stabilization and economic Development as separate and equal, the strategy should be to re-integrate the two global policy goals, in part by separating responsibility (and funding) from action. Th is will require an approach that goes beyond Kyoto. Th e paper invokes the example of the Manhattan Project to argue for a massive, globally funded public investment program for the deployment of renewable energy technologies in developing countries.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development Tariq Banuri and Hans Opschoor Th e purpose of this working paper is to raise critical issues on the relationship between ...

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