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The Green Climate Fund – Bringing the World of Ideas to the Board Room
April 24th, 2013
he World Bank is a leading heavyweight in development investment, presiding over US$30 – $40 billion per year. Inaugurated last summer, the Green Climate Fund could soon dwarf that portfolio. It is estimated that by 2020 it will be channeling US$100 billion a year in climate finance to developing countries – to help arrest the advance of climate change whilst adjusting to its effects.
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Green Climate Fund: with so much at stake we can’t afford foul play
October 22nd, 2012
Urgency and precaution are not easily reconcilable. The Green Climate Fund – which met last week for the second time – will have to negotiate that balance. As climate negotiations chug along laboriously, this global fund will ensure that much-needed investment is not stalled as a result. By 2020 it could be holding the purse strings for up to US$100 billion in climate money every year.
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If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it
May 9th, 2012
“If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it,” was the press headline when Severn Suzuki addressed heads of states in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. She was twelve years old, at what was then the world’s biggest-ever political gathering. In an impassioned critique of unfettered industrialism, Severn lamented the decline of the natural world, and the many injustices that man has wrought upon it. “I’m fighting for my future,” she said.
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