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Chapter 8 - From Global Concern To Local Action
Chapter 8 - From Global Concern To Local Action
Local Action
Overview
• About Wicked Problems and Leadership
• Recent Poverty Trends
• Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—The
State of Climate Science
• The Drivers of Climate Change
• Evolving Regime of the UN FCCC
• Four Views of Climate Change and Poverty
• Positive Impact Careers
About Wicked Problems and Leadership
• Wicked problems are big and have many causes and dimensions
• Interactions between this and other issues are complex in technical and social ways
• Stakeholders have widely different views on the problem and preferred solutions; there
may be conflicting goals for those involved
• Wicked problems go beyond the authority and resources of one (level of) government
• Attempts to address them may lead to unforeseen outcomes that complicate matters
Recent Poverty Trends
• Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of fewer individuals, and the global
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) helped lift millions out of (extreme) poverty
Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC)—The State of Climate Science