Zero poverty… think again - Impact of climate change on development efforts

Sustainable jobs and access to prosperity S haping policy for development For the full report visit: odi.org.uk/zero-poverty Contact: w.mcfarland@odi.org.uk Our mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods. [...] Even if the international community manages to continue the advances made by the MDGs in eradicating poverty, climate change must be tackled if Impacts of climate these poverty reductions are to be sustainable in the longer term. [...] Due to different metrics, levels of confidence and Figure 1: Impact of climate on poverty scenarios used to drive analysis, it is not yet possible to reduction pathways quantify precisely the magnitude of the impact of climate change on each of the indicative goal areas, or to produce cumulative figures of the number of people affected. [...] The achievement of any set of SDGs The evidence reviewed in the report demonstrates is dependent on the ability to adapt the complexity, inter-connectedness and scale of to climate change the expected impacts of climate change on poverty and implications for poverty reduction efforts. [...] For The need for adaptation is driven home by the some issues, specifically food, agriculture, water knowledge that we are already likely committed to at and health, there is evidence from multiple least a 1.5°C rise in global average temperatures by the sources of the direct negative impacts of projected end of the century, except under the most ambitious climate change on poverty and development.