Terence Dawson & Simon Allen of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability at the University of Edinburgh write:

Climate change therefore seems to demand that the international community should find new ways of transferring wealth from rich to poor countries, instead of relying on ever-increasing volumes of trade and tourism with their associated greenhouse-gas emissions.

Okay, we’ll get right on that!

Why do they presume that innovative poverty reduction mechanisms will be easier to find than climate change coping mechanisms?