Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/12/2010 9:19:54 AM PST by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon set up a high-level advisory panel Friday to mobilize funding to help developing nations battle climate change.
The panel, to be led by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi, aimed "to mobilize the resources for climate change pledged at the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen," Ban told reporters.
The group, evenly balanced between developed and developing nations, "will develop practical proposals to significantly scale up long-term (public and private) financing for mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries," he added.
The UN boss said the group would specifically seek to marshal new and innovative resources to reach a 100-billion-dollar target by 2020 to fund "adaptation, mitigation, technology development and transfer, and capacity building in developing countries, with priority for the most vulnerable."
The panel was set to include heads of state and government, top officials from ministries and central banks as well as experts on public finance, development and related issues.
Ban said the composition of the panel would be announced shortly and revealed that he planned to ask Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to join.
The secretary-general, who was linked by video conference with Brown and Meles, said he expected the panel to deliver a preliminary report at the May-June meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which provides a planetary arena for tackling climate change.
"Finance for adaptation and mitigation and transfer of technology are of central significance for developing countries in general and the poor and vulnerable countries in particular," the Ethiopian premier said from Addis Ababa.
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I miss Tom Bolton.
We really need to be out of that global socialism club.
Corruption at the highest levels of gubamint and academia..
How much has been squandered on vapour and hot air?
Rush is calling it criminal political corruption.
Tilting with windmills.
“”Finance for adaptation and mitigation and transfer of technology are of central significance for developing countries in general and the poor and vulnerable countries in particular,” the Ethiopian premier said from Addis Ababa.”
Yeah, pocket billions, and put the money in a private account on the Isle of Man, you POS!
Interesting question for all Republicans. Should we pull out of the UN? If not, why not? If we should stay in the UN, why? How do you feel about the UN controlling our military in the future?
they’ve solved world peace and are moving on to more lucrative things.
The group, evenly balanced between developed and developing nations, “will develop practical proposals to significantly scale up long-term (public and private) financing for mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries,” he added.”
It’s all about the money. Well, at least it is if you ignore their desire for global control.
These fools just keep on beating that dead horse.
I think some of these clowns need to “Come up missing.”
This defunct international organization needs to be shutdown and forever disbanded to irrelevance hell.
We told you the weather would change and we were right.
Now we’re going to raise your taxes and steal your freedom to come up with a way to end weather change.
Glad to know you don’t question us. :D
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