Climate change mitigation strategies: impacts and obstacles in low- and middle-income countries

Climate change is clearly the biggest existential threat to life on planet Earth. Failure to act swiftly and decisively will inevitably lead to irreversible impacts and insurmountable dangers, according to the most recent assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the window for strategies to prevent catastrophic change is getting ever shorter. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has described this report as a “code red for humanity”, warning that it provides an “atlas of human suffering and …