It's actually worthwhile to stop for a second and remember that poverty and climate change are intrinsically linked. As we have seen, World Bank, IMF and lots of UN efforts are not producing results on eradicating poverty and in creating sustainable livelyhoods. That's not a criticism against them, but rather against their role as being a political football (thanks to Michael Hopkins for that term) in a game that still has too many bad actors, bad governments and of, course, bad business.
However, Hopkins stresses, and I couldn't do more than repeating, that
"the future catastrophe will lead corporations to focus more on their carbon footprint than on their development footprint".
As conflict is not only intrinsically linked to both climate change and development but indeed the work on it may often provide the missing link itself, we all know that there's still some way to go on that road of "the role of business in conflict".
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