To End Poverty, Act on Climate

The author asserts that climate change threatens to reverse development gains and undermine efforts to end poverty. The text emphasizes that the UN Climate Summit and the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals are critical opportunities to integrate climate resilience with poverty eradication. It highlights specific solutions, such as renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies, as drivers of economic growth and public health.

• Climate change poses a direct threat to UN missions in peacekeeping and development because the resulting hardship often leads to conflict.
• Development investments are at risk of failure due to climate-driven disruptions, including irregular rainfall affecting farmers, floods destroying villages, ocean acidification impacting fisheries, and the spread of vector-borne diseases like malaria.
• The transition from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represents a shift toward a global agenda where climate change is a central concern.
• Existing solutions that mitigate climate change also provide immediate socio-economic benefits, such as solar lamps for education and entrepreneurship, energy-efficient technologies for cost savings, renewable energy for job creation, and clean cookstoves for improved health and income generation.
• Limiting the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius is presented as an achievable goal that would result in a more prosperous and sustainable world.

APA

Calvin, K. (2014). To End Poverty, Act on Climate. We Mean Business Coalition. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/to-end-poverty-act-on-climate/

Chicago

Calvin, Kathy. To End Poverty, Act on Climate. We Mean Business Coalition, 2014. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/to-end-poverty-act-on-climate/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Calvin |first1=Kathy |title=To End Poverty, Act on Climate |publisher=We Mean Business Coalition |date=15 September 2014 |url=https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/to-end-poverty-act-on-climate/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{calvin2014end, author = {Calvin, Kathy}, title = {{To End Poverty, Act on Climate}}, publisher = {We Mean Business Coalition}, year = {2014}, month = sep, url = {https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/to-end-poverty-act-on-climate/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }