Links tagged “global governance”
- ‘Loss and Damage’ a novel wealth redistribution scheme in Bonn at UN Summit
'Do you realize how much money you owe to developing nations to compensate for all the harm your extravagant car-driving, food-refrigerating, detached-housing, lifestyle has caused?'
- Africa’s energy consumption growing fastest in world: ‘At 4.1% growth, Africa’s per capita energy consumption is growing faster than anywhere else…’
'...driven by improved infrastructure, inward investment, and efforts to tackle corruption'
- Prof. Pielke Jr. on UN: ‘Centralized global gov’t is going to change everyone’s lives because of ‘science’? Perhaps now we might understand the origins of skepticism’
- Flashback: Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About ‘Global Governance’
- ALERT: UN climate chief Christiana Figueres seeks ‘centralized transformation’ that is ‘going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different’
'The Industrial Revolution was also a transformation, but it wasn't a guided transformation from a centralized policy perspective. This is a centralized transformation that is taking place because governments have decided that they need to listen to science. So it's a very, very different transformation and one that is going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different'
- As the UN opens its General Assembly session, it is already thinking up new global taxes –New taxes on carbon emissions’
'A royalty on all undersea mineral resources extracted more than 100 miles offshore of any nation's territory...would transfer hundreds of billions, and even trillions, of dollars from the rich nations of the world — especially the U.S. — to poorer ones, in line with U.N.-directed economic, social and environmental development'
- SEC OF STATE CLINTON URGED TO SUPPORT ‘ROBIN HOOD’ TAX TO FUND CLIMATE
Green groups urge Clinton to 'support a financial transaction tax to help fund the fight against climate change. A transaction levy, or 'Robin Hood Tax,' could help fund $100 billion of climate change aid that developed countries have pledged by 2020'
- Obama’s EPA Chief Jackson Praises UN Earth Summit: ‘It is the rarest of opportunities to truly change the world…It means working together to strengthen the effectiveness of environmental governance’
Lisa Jackson 20th January 2012, 'As Rio+20, the 20th anniversary of [UN's] 1992 Earth Summit, approaches in June, we have a chance to learn lessons, build partnerships and put in place innovative strategies that can reshape the economic and environmental future of our entire planet. It is the rarest of opportunities to truly change the world, and make a difference that will benefit billions of people'
- ‘Environmental governance’: 100 countries back French proposal to create a ‘World Environment Organisation’ at UN’s Rio Earth summit
'It should be part of a rethink of the world's economy, in which green issues and social questions should be integrated into the search for profit...'The new capitalism which emerges from the crisis has to be environmental, or it won't be new...We are looking for a new kind of environmental governance, something more inclusive, in which all parties have a stake and it's not just governments which have the right to speak'
- Move over global warming: UN panel says retool world economy for sustainability – ‘The world must redefine the very concept of national wealth’
UN panel: 'Current global development is unsustainable' - EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard, said report should be a 'wake up' call for action. Hedegaard said the Rio+20 summit was an opportunity to 'kick off this global transition towards a sustainable growth model for the 21st century'
