Stéphane Hallegatte

Stéphane Hallegatte

Stéphane Hallegatte is a senior economist at the World Bank. His work includes climate change vulnerability and adaptation, green growth strategies, urban economics and environmental policies, and disaster risk management. He was lead author of IPCC reports, and co-led with Marianne Fay the World Bank report “Decarbonizing Development.” He was the lead author of “Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty,” on which this post is based.

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To keep climate change from driving people into poverty, act now

To keep climate change from driving people into poverty, act now

about 10 years ago // Poverty alleviation

If we do not take action, climate change will make it impossible to achieve the global goal of ending extreme poverty, write World Bank's research assistant Mook Bangalore, and senior economist Stéphane Hallegatte in this guest commentary.