Development Key to Climate Resilience, Wheeler Tells Congressional Hearing

July 27, 2009

India Weather Map Congress should focus U.S. foreign assistance on human and economic development to buttress vulnerable societies against the inevitable impacts of climate change, CGD senior fellow David Wheeler told members of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment at a hearing last week on climate change and vulnerable societies. CGD outreach and policy assistant Kaci Farrell reports.

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