UN WANTS GREEN NEW DEAL

U.N. urges G20 leaders to back “Green New Deal”
Daniel Wallis (w/David Clarke), 16 February 2009 (Reuters)

"World leaders meeting in London in April should kick-start a "Green New Deal" to fight climate change and revive the crippled global economy on a sustainable basis, a major U.N. environment meeting was told…

"The U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) says political efforts to curb pollution, protect forests and avert global warming have failed, and the world needs to learn from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression…A U.N. report presented…at the conference in Nairobi called on G20 leaders to consider proposals for a "Green New Deal", and develop framework ideas towards securing a global climate change agreement at talks in Copenhagen in December…"

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"More than 190 nations have agreed to negotiate a new global deal by the end of 2009 to succeed the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, which sets carbon dioxide limits for 37 industrialised nations…huge banking bailouts had been mobilised in weeks, but the response to climate change had been lethargic…

"[T]he world was reeling from multiple crises, and people were worried about food security, jobs and their savings. An "environmental thread" ran through the story…Soaring food prices last year had brought intense focus not just on agriculture and trade issues, but on the inflationary role of biofuel production…"