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Nature 446, 372 (22 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446372a; Published online 21 March 2007

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Poverty reduction must not exacerbate climate change

Terence P. Dawson1 & Simon J. Allen1

  1. Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, Scotland, UK

Current international policy responses to the world's two most serious problems, poverty and climate change, seem to be pulling in opposite directions.To boost economic growth in less developed countries, international development agencies and the World Trade Organization at the Doha conference in 2001 called for a reduction in European Union and US food subsidies and the removal of trade barriers.