2007/2008 Human Development Report: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

The 2007/2008 Human Development Report entitled Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world will be launched later today in Brasilia, Brazil. According to the report, Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contributed least to the problem. The most polluting countries in 2004 were the USA and China. In what concerns human development, Iceland, Norway and Australia are the countries which present better indicators. At the bottom, we can still find countries such as Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone, which still have a long way to go in improving most human development indicators.

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