Climate change : meeting the challenge : report by a Commonwealth group of experts.

By:

Holdgate, Martin W. (Martin Wyatt)

Contributor(s):

Commonwealth Secretariat

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1989Description: ix, 131 p. : illISBN:

0850923417

Subject(s):

Subject: This report makes it plain that the world's poor could be the main victims of climate change and concludes that a global strategy for controlling global emissions must permit rapid economic growth in developing countries and suggests how this might be achieved. It provides a detailed guide to the kind of data collection effort needed by governments in order to monitor and analyse the changes taking place and help populations adjust

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Includes bibliography

Jt authors: Jim Bruce, R. F. Camacho, Nitin Desai, Fasih Uddin Mahtab, Ophelia Mascarenhas, W. John Maunder, Hussain Shihab and Samuel Tewungwa

This report makes it plain that the world's poor could be the main victims of climate change and concludes that a global strategy for controlling global emissions must permit rapid economic growth in developing countries and suggests how this might be achieved. It provides a detailed guide to the kind of data collection effort needed by governments in order to monitor and analyse the changes taking place and help populations adjust

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