VietNamNet Bridge – Developing nations in the Asia-Pacific
region must build up climate resiliency and shift towards lower-
carbon pathways if they want to sustain hard-won human
development gains attained over the past decades in the changing
climate context. The newly-released Asia-Pacific Human
Development Report titled One Planet to Share highlights the
urgent need to successfully deal with the trade-offs between
economic growth and reducing emissions "because there is no
choosing one over the other". The report, sponsored by the UN
Development Programme (UNDP), says that the Asia-Pacific region
must do what has not been done before - continue to sustain
growth, lift people out of poverty, but do so with reduced
greenhouse gas emissions. It argues that the region can solve
the prosperity-emission dilemma because its unfinished
development agenda allows it to do things differently. The areas
for changes, it suggests, include producing for the future,
raising rural resilience, building greener cities and pro