Human Development Report is a reliable source and alternative perspective on critical issues for human development worldwide. Featuring the Human Development Index, this report presents agenda-setting data and analysis and calls international attention to issues and policy options that put people at the center of strategies to meet the challenges of development todayeconomic, social, political, and cultural. Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting Climate Change - Human Solidarity in a Divided World addresses the greatest challenge facing humanity at the start of the 21st Century--climate change. Failure to meet that challenge raises the spectre of unprecedented reversals in human development. This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget. The Report explains how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnera