Climate change and development

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Floods, droughts, storms and heatwaves destroy crops, homes and infrastructure, worsen hunger and disease, and force people to migrate — undoing development gains.

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The idea that those who caused climate change should help those hit hardest by it, since the poorest emitted least yet suffer most.

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Poor countries need to grow, often using cheap fossil fuels, yet growth adds to the emissions that drive climate change.

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They produced a tiny share of emissions yet face the worst impacts and can least afford to protect themselves, while the rich are more protected.

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Measures that help a country cope with climate impacts — sea defences, drought-resistant crops, early warning — as opposed to cutting emissions.

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The harm from climate impacts that cannot be prevented; poorer countries argue rich, high-emitting countries should pay for it.

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They need affordable energy to lift people out of poverty, they emitted least historically, and daily poverty is their more urgent threat.

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Climate change hits development hardest, delay locks in worse and costlier damage, and clean energy is now often cheaper.

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The rich, high-emitting countries that caused most emissions and gained most wealth should cut most and help fund poorer countries' clean development.

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Because it raises deeply political questions of fairness, responsibility and who pays — between rich and poor countries — that must be negotiated.

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Not 'grow OR green' but shared, just green development: the rich cut and pay most while poorer countries develop cleanly with support.