The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen begins in less than two weeks, and while scientists generally agree on the causes and horrific consequences of a sudden climate shift, the world has yet to agree on actions to avert such a catastrophe and or to cope with the rapid warming already underway. CGD hopes to contribute to a policy consensus through a 14-question survey that poses many of the same choices that negotiators will face at Copenhagen and beyond. The survey will interest all who care about development.

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The impacts of runaway climate change on developing countries are dire and increasingly well understood. At the same time, some measures to cut emissions could have serious unintended negative consequences for developing-country growth. CGD senior fellow Arvind Subramanian and co-authors offer some preliminary quantification of the impact of possible policy approaches in a pair of new working papers, “Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy” and “Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing-Country Industrialization?”

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