Hope Springs Eternal?
By: Steve Vanderheiden
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As Darrel Moellendorf observes in Mobilizing Hope, climate change and poverty are intertwined in various ways, including the facts that climate impacts threaten to exacerbate global poverty as well as that financial resources devoted to climate change mitigation could be diverted from being used to alleviate global poverty. A decade ago, concerns about the latter motivated ‘additionality’rules that prohibited donor countries from diverting or merely rebadging development aid as financing for climate change mitigation or adaptation, acknowledging the tension. Moellendorf here moves beyond it and aims to integrate climate imperatives with those of development in a more symbiotic or mutually reinforcing relationship, rather than accepting the competition between them that was originally envisaged.