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Forum Finanz: World Development Report 2010 - Development and Climate Change

According to WDR 2010, the world is already feeling the impacts of a changing climate: more droughts, floods, strong storms, and heat waves - thereby “taxing” individuals, firms, and governments, and drawing resources away from development. If climate change continues at current rates, it could lead to a different world from today’s.

Even the best efforts are unlikely to stabilize average temperatures at anything less than 2°C above preindustrial levels. This warming will require substantial adaptation efforts. Developed countries can and must reduce their high-carbon footprint. Developing countries will need to adapt, while mitigating the climate implications of their massive needs for energy, transport, urban systems, agricultural and industrial production - all producing more greenhouse gases if pursued using traditional means.

The WDR 2010 analyzes how to make development more resilient to climate change, so that countries can pursue growth and overcome poverty while stabilizing temperatures. Some of the key messages of WDR 2010 are:

Climate change threatens all countries, but developing countries are the most vulnerable.
Economic growth alone is unlikely to be fast or equitable enough to counter threats from climate change, particularly if it remains carbon-intensive and accelerates global warming.
Low-carbon growth is attainable through immediate, global, and comprehensive mitigation action.
Success hinges on changing behavior and shifting public opinion.

Die Veranstaltung wird in englischer Sprache abgehalten. Das Bundesministerum für Finanzen lädt am

11. Mai 2010 um 15.00 Uhr
in das Bundesministerium für Finanzen
Dr. Peter Quantschnigg Saal
Hintere Zollamtsstraße 2b
1030 Wien

zu der Veranstaltung World Development Report 2010 - Development and Climate Change mit anschließender Diskussion ein.

Presentation:	Marianne Fay
	Chief Economist Sustainable Development Network Co-Director, World Development Report 2010 „Development in a Changing Climate“
Moderation:	Günther Schönleitner
	Head of the Division for International Financial Institutions Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance
Contributions:	Jakob Lenz
	Department for Climate Change and Air Quality Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
	Erwin Künzi
	Advisor for Environmental and Natural Resources Austrian Development Agency