01674cam a2200169 a 4500020001800000050001500018245010600033260008300139300002600222505030900248520083500557650002101392650002101413650002001434650001901454650003101473  a9780230547049 4aQC981.8.C500aHuman Development Report 2007/2008 :bfighting climate change : human solidarity in a divided world /  aNew York :bUnited Nations Development Programme ;bPalgrave Macmillan,c2007.  axvi, 384 p. :bill. ;0 aFighting climate change: human solidarity in a divided world -- The 21st Century climate challenge -- Climate shocks: risk and vulnerability in an unequal world -- Avoiding dangerous climate change: strategies for mitigation -- Adapting to the inevitable: national action and international cooperation --  aThe report ...calls for a "twin track approach that combines stringent mitigation to limit 21st Century warming to less than 2°C (3.6° F) with strengthened international cooperation on adaptation.  On mitigation, the authors call on developed countries to ... cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% of 1990 levels by 2050. It advocates a mix of carbon taxation, more stringent cap-and-trade programmes, energy regulation, and international cooperation on financing for low-carbon technology transfer. Turning to adaptation, the report warns that inequalities in ability to cope with climate change are emerging as an increasingly powerful driver of wider inequalities between and within counties. It calls on rich countries to put climate change adaptation at the centre of international partnerships on poverty reduction. 0aClimatic changes 0aClimatic changes 0aGlobal warming. 0aGlobal warming 0aGreenhouse gas mitigation.