Our refusal to acknowledge climate change puts development at risk



World Bank vice president, Rachel Kyte.

Development throughout the world is threatened by our refusal to acknowledge climate change, according to World Bank vice-president and Special Envoy for Climate Change, Rachel Kyte.

An article published on the Future Earth website headed: “Rachel Kyte:Climate change threatens to wipe out development progress” lamented the inattention paid the climate change.

“If you are committed to ending poverty and you are committed to building prosperity, you have to grapple with climate change,” she said.

Praising the fact that European countries were giving 0.7 per cent of their GDP to development,  Ms Kyte said that was being done while letting climate change go ahead in an unmitigated way.

“You are cancelling one out with the other” she said. “That is why climate becomes so important”.

Future Earth is a new 10-year research program aimed at providing the knowledge needed to tackle the most urgent challenges of the 21^st century related to global sustainability.