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Human Development Report 2007/8: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world. New York.</p></div> <div class="citation-export-link field__item"><a href="/publication/citation-export/1247" class="use-ajax" data-dialog-renderer="off_canvas" data-dialog-type="dialog" data-dialog-options="{"width":"40%","title":""}">Download/Export Citation</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="publication-content__content cell large-6 xlarge-5 xlarge-offset-1"> <h1 class="h2 display-medium-and-above"><span>Human Development Report 2007/8</span> </h1> <h2 class="h3 publication-content__tagline display-medium-and-above">Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world</h2> <div class="publication-content__post-date">Posted on: January 01, 2008</div> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><p>Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contributed least to the problem. Looking to the future, no country鈥攈owever wealthy or powerful鈥攚ill be immune to the impact of global warming.</p><p>The Human Development Report 2007/8 shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business-as-usual climate change points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their grandchildren.</p><p>There is a window of opportunity for avoiding the most damaging climate change impacts, but that window is closing: the world has less than a decade to change course. Actions taken鈥攐r not taken鈥攊n the years ahead will have a profound bearing on the future course of human development. The world lacks neither the financial resources nor the technological capabilities to act. What is missing is a sense of urgency, human solidarity and collective interest.</p><p>As the Human Development Report 2007/8 argues, climate change poses challenges at many levels. In a divided but ecologically interdependent world, it challenges all people to reflect upon how we manage the environment of the one thing that we share in common: planet Earth. It challenges us to reflect on social justice and human rights across countries and generations. It challenges political leaders and people in rich nations to acknowledge their historic responsibility for the problem, and to initiate deep and early cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Above all, it challenges the entire human community to undertake prompt and strong collective action based on shared values and a shared vision.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section articles article-related-content"> <div class="section__content grid-container"> <div class="grid-x grid-margin-x"> <div class="articles__title-col cell xlarge-3 xlarge-offset-1" data-viewport="true"> <h2 class="articles__title"> HDRO <br/>News </h2> <a class="cta-link cta-link--space articles__link" href="/news?field_theme_target_id[12]=12#view-id__find-articles__find-articles" role="button"> <span>See more</span> </a> </div> <div class="articles__items-col cell xlarge-8"> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="grid-x grid-margin-x js-view-dom-id-2b3f943b9816e42a3bd70531742340ecc43b48f3e6f34b1f35e172db41f79df2"> <div class="cell large-6 views-row"> <article class="teaser__wrapper"> <div class="teaser"> <a href="/content/wildlife-not-money-makes-world-go-round" 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