Announcement. Presentation of the 2007/2008 UNDP Global Human Development Report: ‘Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world’.

Building on the science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Synthesis Report (2007) and the economics of the N. Stern Review The Economics of Climate Change (2006), UN Development Programme Human Development Report (HDR) focuses on climate change consequences for human development and in particular for the poor. It offers recommendations for the solution of these problems.

• why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget
• how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into a downward spiral of deprivation
• what should be the global response with countries acting on the basis of their historic responsibility and capabilities

These and other questions are answered in the Report, which will be presented 27-28 November 2007 in the world capitals

The Moscow presentation to be lead by Ms Kori Udovički, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, will take place on 28 November 2007 at 15:00 in the premises of MGIMO University at the following address: 76 Prospect Vernadskogo, central entrance, conference hall 1 (Prospect Vernadskogo metro st.). Representatives of the authors’ team, interested government bodies, academic institutions, business community, diplomatic corps, UN agencies, non-governmental organisations and media will take part in the presentation.

For accreditation please contact (495) 787 2100 till 18.00 27 November 2007

For further information please contact Victoria Zotikova at. 7872115 victoria.zotikova@undp.org or Snizhana Kolomiiets at mobile 8 916 1079416 snizhana.kolomiiets@undp.org

ABOUT THE HDR REPORT: The Human Development Report is an independent report commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It is translated into more than a dozen languages and launched in more than 100 countries annually. Further information can be found at http://hdr.undp.org

ABOUT UNDP: UNDP is the UN’s global network to help people meet their development needs and build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working as a trusted partner with governments, civil society and the private sector to help them build their own solutions to global and national development challenges. Further information can be found at www.undp.org

You can find the Agenda here