ABSTRACT
Managing climate change and overcoming poverty are defining challenges of the 21st century. We will succeed or fail on the two together. If we fail to manage climate change, we will create a physical environment so hostile it will destroy the prospects of development for billions of people. On the other hand, if we try to manage climate change in a way that obstructs, or appears to obstruct, prospects for development for poor countries over the next few decades, we will not create the coalition necessary to combat climate change. We can and we must tackle these two challenges together.
