CC: the antithesis of sustainable development Part 1/9

Climate Change: the antithesis of sustainble development
Part 1/9

4-5:30pm, 23 June, 2009


Sustainable development theory holds that economic development, environmental conservation and enhanced social equity are not only mutually inclusive; they are in fact mutually reinforcing and indeed mutually dependent. Climate change, on the other hand, will increasingly drag down economic growth and lead to exponentially higher adaptation costs. It will have an increasingly profound negative impact on the global environment and will exacerbate existing social inequalities and poverty. Moreover, each of these negative trends together will form a negative feedback loop. Can climate change, therefore, be described as the antithesis of sustainable development policy?

Eckhard Deutscher, Chair, Development Assistance Committee, OECD

Dean Hirsch, President and CEO, World Vision International

Ahmed Naseem, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Maldives

Moderated by David Suzuki, scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster

In kind partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maldives

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