“This
is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves
the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic
development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years…”
The United Nation’s top climate
change official Christiana Figueres announced this
week that the group is actively working to “intentionally transform” the
world’s economic development model, a task she called the “most difficult”
one the group has ever undertaken.
“This
is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves,
which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for
the first time in human history,” UNFCCC Executive
Secretary Figueres stated at a press conference in Brussels
Tuesday.
The “intentional” reordering
of the global economy, she told reporters, “will not happen overnight” due to
the “depth of the transformation”:
“This is the first
time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of
intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development
model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution.
That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference
on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 — you choose the number. It just
does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the
transformation.”
Figueres is optimistic
that a new international treaty, the so-called “Lima draft”—which she hopes
will be adopted at climate change conference in Paris at the end of the
year—will be yet another step to the “transformation” of the world’s economic
model. The new treaty, she pointed out, was one of four parts of the process of
economic reordering. UNRIC reports:
In addition to the
treaty, there are the current Climate Change actions from now and until 2020,
the financing packages and the so-called Intended National Determined Contributions
(INDCs). These are the actions that countries intend to take under a
global agreement from 2020 and have to be publicly outlined before the
start of the conference. It is expected that all major economies will deliver
their plans in time: the US, China, and the European Union have already
shown their cards.
“We
need to get to the maximum level of ambition of collective INDCs because
what we are going to have to do all of the time is to close the gap between
what science tells us where we have to be and where we actually are….” said
Figueres. “But the point is will we be at the end destination? I would
argue, yes.”
Related Posts
-
http://agenda21news.com/2015/02/u-n-climate-chief-intentionally-transforming-world-economy/#more-4723
No comments:
Post a Comment