UN Secretary General: We need a ‘Green New Deal’
Articles — By forcechange on December 11, 2008 3:16 pm
As the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland winds down, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that in spite of the global economic crisis, “there can be no backsliding on [the world's] commitments to a future of low-carbon emissions.”
“Yes, the economic crisis is serious. Yet when it comes to climate change, the stakes are far higher. The climate crisis affects our potential prosperity and peoples’ lives, both now and far into the future,” Ban stated.
Echoing the plan FDR used to address the Great Depression, Ban suggested that the world needs a “Green New Deal,” where “a big part of that spending should be… an investment in a green future.” Ban asked that both the EU and President-elect Obama provide leadership in these efforts.
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