The world has taken an important step toward countering climate change by agreeing to the Bali Action Plan. The plan may not look like much, since it basically commits the world to more talking rather than specific actions, yet Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Economics and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, is optimistic for three reasons:
The
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Jeffrey D. Sachs writes in the Scientific American that the coming decades may see the mass-migration of hundreds of millions of “environmental refugees” seeking better living conditions and above all available water. It will be important to keep an eye on at least four vulnerable climate zones:
- Coastal areas. The 10% of the global population living in these areas is highly vulnerable to
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