Climate change ‘single biggest hindrance’ to human development
by The Daily Eye Team July 26 2014, 8:35 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secsThe recently released Human Development Report has identified six major threats to human development and proposed a set of policies and reforms to address these vulnerabilities. Climate change could be the “single biggest hindrance” to global development objectives such as poverty eradication, universal education, longer life expectancy, and the prevention of disease, according the latest Human Development Report (HDR) 2014, launched in Tokyo on Thursday. The report, published by the United Nations Development Progrmame, identified climate change and natural disasters as one of six key threats to human development, along with economic instability, inequality, food insecurity, conflict and health problems