Development and Climate - Exploring an integrated approach.

Introduction

The distribution of wealth amongst the global population makes that development has a totally different connotation in the richer and poorer parts of the world. To the South, pressing day-to-day problems, such as poverty eradication, clean drinking water, food security and access to energy are of the highest priority. Against this background, for developing countries international environmental policies, and more specifically the climate issue, are not only of secondary importance, but often even perceived as a possible threat to development.