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In the twenty-first century, human society faces three grand challenges: reducing worldwide poverty, enabling development, and avoiding dangerous climate change. Progress on all these challenges is slow, and possible solutions are increasingly interlinked.
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Edenhofer, O., Wallacher, J., Knopf, B., Lotze-Campen, H., Reder, M., Müller, J. (2012). Introduction. In: Edenhofer, O., Wallacher, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Reder, M., Knopf, B., Müller, J. (eds) Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4540-7_1
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