1. Understanding the links between climate change and development; 2. Reducing human vulnerability: helping people help themselves; 3. Managing land and water to feed nine billion people and protect natural systems; 4. Energizing development without compromising the climate; 5. Integrating development into the global climate regime; 6. Generating the funding needed for mitigation and adaptation; 7. Accelerating innovation and technology diffusion; 8. Overcoming behavioral and institutional inertia.