Climate change is evident in changes in water supplies as glaciers disappear, and even risks of conflict, said Field. “Now for slowing human-induced global warming, there is no single magic bullet – but it can be achieved,” Edenhofer said. It takes a mix of policies and technologies, he pointed out.
“The IPCC report makes it crystal clear that time is of the essence,” said World Bank Group Vice President Rachel Kyte. “The sooner we start to tackle the problem, the better our chance of fixing it and, importantly, lower the costs.” At the day of the event, the US Environmental Protection Agency released its plan to regulate emissions from power plants with a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2005.
Weblink to a video of the event: http://live.worldbank.org/how-climate-change-affects-global-development
Weblink to further information about the event: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/06/03/climate-change-risk-management-and-the-big-emitters
Weblink to IPCC Working Group III on mitigation: http://mitigation2014.org/
