Industrialised nations must pay billions of pounds to help poorer countries tackle global warming if millions of people around the world are not to be consigned to endless poverty.
Truly Inconvenient: Tackling Poverty and Climate Change at Once is intended to inform debate at a UN climate change conference in Bali in December, where representatives from 180 nations will discuss an international strategy for reducing global warning.
Report author Andrew Pendleton, senior climate change policy analyst at Christian Aid, says: 'To keep temperature rises worldwide below 2°C and avoid widespread catastrophe triggered by flooding and drought, developing nations as well as the industrialised world must cut greenhouse gas emissions.
'Emerging economies may well be reluctant to take the necessary steps for fear they will be denied a chance of future prosperity. Nations that have grown rich in part by polluting without facing the costs of doing so, must now repay their carbon debt to the developing world.'
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