How will the effects of climate change in Africa, for example, impact on security in industrialised nations?
RV: More drought in Africa will bring more Africans to Europe with the accompanying societal issues. Then, where people move, there will be conflicts. So we have to respond to the complexities of climate change strategically. Developing countries must be given an opportunity to grow to make themselves defensible to climate change. IPS: How can the survey’s recommendations be realised? Are growth and reduction of emissions not mutually exclusive? RV: It is always difficult to predict the future. Yet importantly, what the survey attempts to show is that without development, the sensitivity to climate change of developing countries will increase. So both policies need to become part of each other. We have the knowledge and technology, but both are expensive and not easily accessible for developing countries. First, we have to ensure that energy expertise becomes affordable and accessible, and second, we have to facilitate the actual transformation to durable forms of energy. IPS: Providin
