The framing of climate change and development: A comparative analysis of the Human Development Report 2007/8 and the World Development Report 2010

► The two reports represent different framings of climate change and development. ► Yet the two reports largely share a technocratic, market-based policy programme. ► Methods of frame- and content-analysis greatly strengthen this characterization. ► The ethically based framing of the HDR requires some different policy instruments. ► Developing such instruments may require a different model of report preparation.