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Climate change is not a “natural” disaster, but a creation of the system that is aimed in
pursuit of private profit at increasing scale. The implications and effects of climate
change can be considered as one of the key factors in determining not only the welfare
of human being but also the existence of other life forms and our planet. The principal
submission of this paper is, extending and advancing the insight of Dr Mahbubul Haq
and his team’s work on Human Development Index, to another important step by
including the negative impact of climate change. This paper uses carbondioxide
emission of a given country as a proxy to capture the adverse effects on climate change
and incorporates that into the HDI in a way that higher carbondioxide emissions lowers
the HDI and renamed it as Clean Air Adjusted HDI. The new index changes the current
HDI ranking of countries by pushing down the countries with heavy air pollution.
Findings of this study can be useful specifically to countries with higher level of
emissions to reconsider their relative ranking in terms of Clean Air Adjusted HDI, to
bring down the emission levels. Further, International Agencies work on Human
Sumanasiri Liyanage*, Anuruddha Kankanamge. (2017) CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: EXTENDING THE VISION OF DR. MAHBUB UL HAQ, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 56, Issue 1 .
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