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Rare international consensus ensured that the new millennium heralded the promise of a fairer world for poor countries, symbolised by undertakings to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Suddenly, a combination of science and observation makes it clear that climate change will impact developing countries much harder and sooner than the richer countries which have caused the phenomenon. With the Millennium Declaration potentially undermined, the moral predicament demands greater levels of international cooperation and resource transfer than have been seen since 1945..
