Chapter 1: Point of Departure
1.1.4.2 Adaptation, Mitigation and Development:
Impacts of climate change will vary across regions and populations, through space and time, dependent on myriad factors including nonclimate stressors and the extent of mitigation and adaptation. Changes in both climate and development are key drivers of the core components of risk (exposure, vulnerability, and physical hazards).The relations with development are complex and contested. There is disagreement about fundamental issues,such as the compatibility of development goals and climate change mitigation, the prioritization of responses (reducing consumption versus investment in sustainable technologies), and the stage of development at which countries should take action (see Box 1-2 for terms used to characterize stages of development) (Schipper, 2007; Grist, 2008; Brooks et al., 2009). The literature points to how inequalities,trade imbalances, intellectual property rights, gender injustice, or agricultural systems, inter alia, cannot be addressed with development focusing solely on increasing economic growth (Pogge, 2008;McMichael, 2009;Alston, 2011; UNDP, 2007, 2011; Büscher et al., 2012;OECD, 2013).
