Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), meets with viEUws.eu‘s leading environment journalist Sonja van Renssen to talk about climate change goals and Europe’s role in the global climate negotiations.
According to Steiner, countries are looking towards UN Climate Change Conferences in Paris and Lima as an opportunity to address climate change with a greater sense of ambition and urgency. However, how to translate these ambitions into an agreement remains an extremely challenging issue. The UN Executive Director points out that climate change actions will become much more feasible not because of their intrinsic value to combat climate change, but because of the multiple benefits they generate. He urges Europe to rediscover its ambition on climate change.
Europe must rediscover its ambition on climate change, urges UNEP Executive Director appeared first on viEUws.
James Rust says
Poverty is the greatest problem for the world. Two billion out of seven billion are poor.
Due to modern communications, those who are poor are aware of their circumstances and that of people living in developed nations. Much of the fighting going on today is in areas of extreme poverty as these people have nothing to lose trying to improve their circumstances.
Cheap energy is the only way for the poor to escape from perpetual poverty. Solar panels and wind mills are too expensive to help billions. We need to stop this nonsense of a universal agreement to abolish use of fossil fuels while neglecting the aspirations of the poor.
James H. Rust