Managing Climate Change. Climate, Growth and Equitable Development

Monsieur l’Administrateur,Chers collègues, chers amis,Mesdames et Messieurs, The world, the planet, is at a crossroads. If we fail to act strongly now to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, if we continue with the pattern of high-carbon growth of the last century, we incur grave risks of a catastrophic destruction of the physical geography of the planet. The implications would likely be the re-drawing of where people could live and how they could live their lives: thus we risk movements of ..