Media attention continues to surround CGD's climate change research especially in the UK and Canada. CGD's most recent working paper on climate change, "Another Inconvenient Truth: A Carbon-Intensive South Faces Environmental Disaster, No Matter What the North Does" by Senior Fellow David Wheeler, garners attentions from a number of news outlets.
The Canadian Press recently ran an article about CGD's new working paper, highlighting Dr. Wheeler's argument that rising carbon emissions from developing countries would threaten severe climate change within a single generation, even if the rich countries were to stop all of their greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow.
From the article:
"Even if the world's rich countries eliminated their carbon emissions now, developing nations would still threaten the world with severe climate change within a generation, says a new study from the Center for Global Development.
The research, based on newly available emissions data for 1850 to 2005, disputes the notion that poor countries can defer worrying about global warming while building up their economies, leaving the well-off that produce most of the carbon dioxide to solve the problem. "
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