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A man stands outside the ruins of a house in Buccament Bay, on St. Vincent’s southwestern coast, 26 December, 2013. Nine people were killed by flooding that followed unusually heavy rain. Damage was estimated at millions of dollars. Photo: Peter Richards/IPS
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FURTHER READING Akelyira, Charles and Ndomo, Atieno – Structural Transformation and the Challenge of Financing Africa’s Post-2015 Development Agenda Alcorta, Ludovico; Naudé, Wim; and Szirmai, Adam – Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms Bensoussan, Eytan; Ruparell, Radha; and Taliento, Lynn – Innovative development financing Böhringer, Christoph; Carbone, Jared; and Rutherford, Thomas – The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs Bretton Woods Project – Follow the money: the World Bank Group and the use of financial intermediaries Costanza, Robert and Kubiszewski, Ida (eds) – Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future: Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders Dodds, Felix; Laguna-Celis, Jorge; and Thompson, Liz – From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future Levi, Michael – By All Means Necessary: How China’s Resource Quest is Changing the World Nadkarni, Vidya and Noonan, Norma (eds) – Emerging Powers in a Comparative Perspective: The Political and Economic Rise of the BRIC Countries Najam, Adil and Thrasher, Rachel (eds) – The Future of South-South Economic Relations Stuenkel, Oliver – India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA): The Rise of the Global South UN Global Compact – UN-Business Partnerships: A Handbook UNIDO – Business Partnerships Zadek, Simon – Financing the Green Economy
FURTHER SURFING monies but it is a mirage and the closer you get to it, you realize it is not there, it recedes. That’s the real difficulty with this and this is why we have to work better, harder on this because this is an exegetical issue. It affects the very existence of our countries,” Gonsalves said. Executive director of the CCCCC, Kenrick Leslie, said that waiting will only make solutions more costly. “Climate change is here. You saw in terms of the frequency of extreme weather events. Those are some of the indicators that the climate is changing. But more importantly, people don’t realize that the sea level is rising at this time, at a rate of five millimetres per year. They might say five millimetres, what is that? But in 10 years, five millimetres will become 50 millimetres, and in terms of the English
system that’s two inches, in 30 years that is six inches. Now consider the sea level rising a further six inches in Guyana or Suriname or Belize,” Leslie said. “We need to have our political leaders become very knowledgeable about what is being negotiated…Technical people can negotiate at the technical level but the final decisions are made at the political level, and therefore if our political leaders are not cognisant with what is going on, then we will fail in terms of getting what is needed for the adaptation that we have to make.” ● IPS is an international communication institution with a global news agency at its core, raising the voices of the South and civil society on issues of development, globalization, human rights and the environment – www.ipsnews.net
http://effectivecooperation.org – The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation helps nations, business and organizations work better together to end poverty http://partnerships.businessfightspoverty.org – The Partnerships Zone of Business Fights Poverty, the world’s largest network of business and development professionals http://postgrowth.org – The Post Growth Institute is an international group exploring and inspiring paths to global prosperity that don’t rely on economic growth www.brettonwoodsproject.org – The Bretton Woods Project is a UK-based NGO that challenges the World Bank and IMF and promotes alternative approaches www.businesscalltoaction.org – Business Call to Action challenges companies to develop inclusive business models that offer the potential for both commercial success and development impact www.oecd.org/dac – The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) groups the world’s main donors, defining and monitoring global standards in key areas of development www.unglobalcompact.org/Issues/Business_Partnerships – Global Compact’s UN-Business Partnerships www.unido.org/businesspartnerships.html – UNIDO’s Business Partnership Programme harnesses the expertise, know-how and resources of the private sector to tackle important global industrial development issues. www.un.org/esa/ffd – UN DESA Financing for Development Office
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