Every year since 1990, the UNDP has commissioned the Human Development Report by an independent team of experts to explore major issues of global concern.
Last year report focusses the global water crisis and investigates the underlying causes and consequences of a crisis that leaves 1.2 billion people without access to safe water and 2.6 billion without access to sanitation.
Water is a source of life, but in a world of unprecedented wealth, almost 2 million children die each year for want of a glass of clean water. The report projects stronger consequences, if Global Warming and Climate Change remains untackled.
Quoting the foreword from Kemal Dervi?:
Far more also needs to be done in the face of the threats to human development posed by climate change. As the Report stresses, this is not a future threat.
Global warming is already happening and it has the potential in many countries to roll back human development gains achieved over generations. Reduced water supplies in areas already marked by chronic water stress, more extreme weather patterns and the melting of glaciers are part of the looming challenge.
Multilateral action to mitigate climate change by reducing carbon emissions is one leg of the public policy response for meeting that challenge. The other is a far stronger focus on supporting adaptation strategies.
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