Is Global Poverty More Pressing Than Climate Change?

This was the first public event to be co-hosted by APGOOD and APPCCG on global poverty and climate change. It aimed to explore the intricate relationships between what have been described as the two most pressing issues of our generation.

Leading experts from both fields presented their impressions of the effects of climate change on development; their opinions on the importance of tackling poverty in this context; and the possibilities for the mitigation of, and adaptation to, the effects of climate change in developing countries.

It also examined the issue of where additional funding might come from to reinforce the infrastructure of developing countries, given the higher incidence of naturally-occurring disasters which are also absorbing an increasing proportion of aid and development funding