Tom Athanasiou - Climate Change - Greenhouse Development Rights

Download an audio file from our public meeting on Greenhouse Development Rights with Tom Athanasiou. The world must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid dangerous climate change. But how can we do this while also facilitating a fair go for the developing world and bring a sense of international equity to the climate change debate? How can a rise in prosperity in the developing world be facilitated while reducing global emissions? Tom Athanasiou says the real climate change challenge is “holding global warming below a catastrophic level while preserving the right of all people to more than merely bare-bones ‘human development’.” Tom Athanasiou is executive director of EcoEquity (www.ecoquity.org), a US-based climate think-tank which works closely with church, aid agencies and environment organisations on greenhouse development rights.

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