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World Economic and Social Survey 2009: Promoting Development, Saving the Planet (Report Links)
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*World Economic and Social Survey 2009: Promoting Development, Saving the
Planet*
The World Economic and Social Survey will be available
todayon
the DESA
website , along with a series
of related Policy
Briefsdrawing
from the report.
The separation of the climate change and development agendas has distorted
the global debate on the two biggest policy challenges facing the
international community. According to the *World Economic and Social Survey
2009*, an integrated approach based on the concept of sustainable
development is urgently needed. The key to such an approach is a low-carbon,
high-growth transformation of the global economy — a transformation that can
keep temperature increases consistent with environmental stability, as
identified by the scientific community, while at the same time fostering the
strong growth and economic diversification in developing countries that
would allow convergence of incomes worldwide. The greening of catch-up
growth will have to be further tailored to meet the adaptation challenges
facing vulnerable countries and communities whose economic security will be
threatened even if climate change is kept within globally manageable limits.
- The Survey argues that mitigation and adaptation efforts can move
forward effectively only if they are part of a consistent development
strategy built around an investment-led push on to low-carbon, high-growth
pathways.
- It warns that the adjustments this will involve must not push poorer
countries and communities further down the development ladder, or leave them
saddled with unmanageable debts, but should instead strengthen their
resilience to external shocks, both climatic and economic.
- While acknowledging that a variety of market and non-market
institutional mechanisms will be needed if advances are to be made along
those paths, the *Survey* contends that the public sector must assume a
much more prominent role, and that stronger developmental States must take
action to mobilize public finances and build appropriate technological
capacities.
- To gain traction, this potentially win-win strategy requires the
international community to step up to the plate with multilateral financing
on a much larger scale than has been forthcoming to date, and with new
approaches to transferring technology from rich to poor countries. The
report offers various suggestions to ensure that the available financing
matches the challenges at hand.* *
For further information, please contact Robert Vos (vos (at) un.org), Richard
Kozul-Wright (kozul-wright (at) un.org ), Imran Ahmad (ahmad33 (at) un.org) of the
United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs.
*Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram*
*Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, *
*United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs*
*http://www.un.org/esa/policy/index.html *
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