The financial crisis and interrelated climate and food crises have become defining parameters for policy-making today. The Trade and Environment Review 2009/2010 asserts that these crises offer a window of opportunity to embark on a path of more resilient and sustainable economic growth, including in low-income and least developed countries.
Trade and Environment Review 2009/2010The Trade and Environment Review 2009/2010: Promoting Poles of Clean Growth to Foster the Transition to a more Sustainable Economy places particular emphasis on the transition to a more sustainable economy in the 140-plus low-income and least developed countries, which - although they did not cause the economic, financial, climate and food crises (for instance, they account for less than 10 per cent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions of all developing countries) - have to bear the brunt of these crises.
How can they mitigate these interrelated crises while transiting to a qualitatively and structurally different growth and development model?
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