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Climate Change, Energy andSustainable Development
Martin Purvis
Introduction
The optimistic assumptions of development currently appear increasingly vulnerable to the destabilizing effects of large-scale environmental change. Climate change, in particular, could derail economic growth and exacerbate existing concerns about matters such as food supplies, livelihoods and vulnerability to natural hazards. The potential costs of damage to socio-economic and environmental systems are huge and seem set to be borne disproportionately by the poor. Concern about climate change thus reflects our continuing inability to foster environmentally sustainable development, and the consequences of this failure for aspirations of greater socio-economic equity. ...
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