Best of Earth911 Podcast: Arthur Baker on Financing an Equitable and Sustainable Future

Best of Earth911 Podcast: Arthur Baker on Financing an Equitable and Sustainable Future

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Arthur Baker, affiliate director of the Development Innovation Lab on the University of Chicago, explains why equity is essential to sustainability. He is the co-author, with Vijaya Ramachandaran, of Let Them Eat Carbon, a Center for Global Development coverage paper that means it isn’t simply unjust however inefficient to make the poorest international locations carry the local weather burden. The response to local weather change includes a world duty to boost folks’s way of life, which reduces inhabitants progress, in addition to increase the utilization of renewable energy and innovation in meals manufacturing and waste and water administration. Take a couple of minutes to take a look at the websites Arthur shares through the present, Give Well and Evidence Action — they analysis the charitable donations that make the most important influence.

Arthur Baker, associate director of the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago
Arthur Baker, affiliate director of the Development Innovation Lab on the University of Chicago, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Sixty-four low-income international locations, which have produced the least greenhouse fuel emissions, face vital financial and environmental challenges which will forestall them from decarbonizing their economies. And, but, even when they don’t decarbonize, these nations will produce only one% of world emissions by 2035. Without help, they are going to merely fall additional behind the nations which have benefited probably the most from the Industrial Era. You can study extra in regards to the University of Chicago’s Development Innovation Lab at bfi.uchicago.edu/development-innovation-lab and in regards to the Center for Global Development at cgdev.org

This podcast initially aired on September 9, 2022.