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SUMMARY:The Impact of Climate Change on Poor Countries - Dr Flavio Comim (
 CSC/VHI\, St Edmund's College)
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DESCRIPTION:\nClimate Change has been defined as the development challenge
  of our generation. The scale and depth of what can happen after CO2 emiss
 ions pass certain thresholds seem unpredictable to many. And yet\, among a
 ll uncertainties one thing seems almost certain: it is the poor who are go
 ing to suffer the most with the effects of climate change. The talk starts
  with a brief discussion of climate change\, it then delves into different
  types of poverty in order to assess the main tipping points and impacts o
 f climate change on different forms of poverty. By looking in depth at wha
 t is likely to happen to the poor\, we can have an idea of the development
  challenges to be faced in the decades ahead. Many different issues are at
  stake here such as 'climate as a global public good'\, the role of intern
 ational organisations in mantaining international order\, trade arrangemen
 ts within a context of food insecurity\, disaster relief options and mitig
 ation vs adaptation possibilities\, to mention just a few.\n\nFlavio Comim
  is a development economist. He is Director of the Capability and Sustaina
 bility Centre and a Fellow of St Edmund's College\, Cambridge. He was a Co
 ordinating Lead-author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment on a chapter
  examining the impact of ecosystem services on poverty reduction. Last yea
 r he was one of the authors of the UN Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4). 
 He has also recently conducted two research projects for the United Nation
 s Environment Programme on 'Poverty&Environment Indicators' and 'Sustainab
 le Consumption Indicators'. Flavio Comim has organised several internation
 al conferences on the themes of poverty\, inequality and justice\, explori
 ng in particular the contribution of the Capability Approach\, as develope
 d by Professor Amartya Sen and Professor Martha Nussbaum\, to human develo
 pment. At the invitation of the UN he was part of the team that three mont
 hs ago launched the 2007/2008 Human Development Report on Climate Change.\
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LOCATION:St Edmund's College\, Garden Room
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