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Global Challenges: a selection
Duncan Green, Oxfam
DEA
2 November 2010
Hunger and the global food price crisis
Source: WFP
From an Age of
Development
To an Age of
Scarcity ?
Climate change requires rapid action
on emissions
© Crown copyright Met Office
3 options (and only three)
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Step change in technology (20
Manhattan projects)
Accept less global growth
Runaway climate change
Financial chaos: what 5,000 kwacha
buys you in Zambia
So what needs to change?
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Tackle hunger today and hunger
tomorrow
Rein in finance sector
Live within planetary boundaries
Tackle inequality within and between
countries
How do we do that?
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Power and politics > Policy
Change what we measure (growth v
prosperity)
Active Citizens
Effective States
One planet living (politics and
environment)
Thankyou! And for more information…
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