Green growth is essential to any stimulus
By Ban Ki-moon and Al Gore Economic stimulus is the order of the day. This is as it must be, as governments around the world struggle to jump-start the global economy. But even as leaders address the immediate need to stimulate the economy, so too must they act jointly to ensure that the new de...
Green Economy Initiative
Mobilizing and re-focusing the global economy towards investments in clean technologies and ‘natural’ infrastructure such as forests and soils is the best bet for real growth, combating climate change and triggering an employment boom in the 21st century. On 22 October 2008, UNEP and leading economists launched the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) aimed at seizing...
Earth Hour
Tomorrow, from 8.30 PM onwards for one hour, the world will cast a first truly global vote: between the planet or global warming. Last year, 2.2 million people and several companies in Sydney switched off their lights for one hour, resulting in an equivalent of 48.000 cars being taken off the road and saving 10,2%...
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Tackling Climate Change, Reducing Poverty
It a time of rising unemployment and economic insecurity, some argue that protecting the environment is a ‘luxury’; but a new report, Tackling Climate Change, Reducing Poverty shows that tackling climate change actually offers a huge opportunity to boost the economy and tackle UK poverty at the same time. For example, government investment in home...
How our economy is killing the Earth
The graphs climbing across these pages (see graph in detail, or explore the data) are a stark reminder of the crisis facing our planet. Consumption of resources is rising rapidly, biodiversity is plummeting and just about every measure shows humans affecting Earth on a vast scale. Most of us accept the need for a more...
Global Climate Action Day
Today, hundreds of people are gathering in Poznan to show their commitment to successful climate negotiations at the 14th Conference of Parties (COP14). The 6th of December is announced as Global Climate Action Day. At YouTube, The Big Ask posted this great video: On 10th August, more than 6,000 people took part in the recording...
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The Climate for Change
- by Al Gore Op-Ed Contributor Ny Times The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he — and we — must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly...
The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet
When the 44th President of the United States is elected, he will face urgent crises on three major fronts: the American economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing threat to the world environment caused by climate change. This short, powerful book shows the way forward: a clear action plan for the new...
A new chapter for America on climate change?
Watch this address by president-elect Barack Obama and see it yourself. Rather impressive? Or not ambitious enough yet? Related items The essentials in Copenhagen Breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist The Climate for Change The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet
World Energy Outlook 2008
Is the world facing a supply crunch due to geology or to inadequate investment? What type of post-Kyoto policy framework could stabilise greenhouse gases at low concentration levels? The answers to these burning questions and more are laid out in the World Energy Outlook 2008. Read more at World Energy Outlook… Related items The essentials...
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We need a ‘Green New Deal’ to tackle ‘triple crunch’ of credit, oil price and climate crises
The world needs leaders with the vision to forge New Deal-type policies to confront the potentially disastrous combination of climate change, high inflation and economic slowdown, a British research group said. The recommendation is made in “A New Green Deal,” a report by the New Economics Foundation. It uses the convergence of the credit crisis,...
Going green is the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century!
The best way to predict the future…is to invent it! The second best way is to finance it! Going green is the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century! So make going green your next big thing! Those who were before us didn’t know about the problem! Those who come after are powerless to do...
