Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/28/2008 1:44:38 PM PDT by Coffee200am
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would press Group of Eight (G8) leaders at their summit in Japan next month to tackle the world food crisis, climate change and the flagging fight against global poverty.
On the eve of his departure on a two-week, three-nation Asian tour, the secretary general said the July 7-9 summit in the northern Japanese resort town of Toyako must face the three inter-related crises which demand "our immediate action."
He said that before departing, he would write to each of the G8 leaders to lay out his concerns about the global food crisis, the need "to act now" on climate change if a deal to cut greenhouse gases is to be reached by the end of next year, and the emergency of development.
"If ever there were a time to act, together as one, it is now," he told a press conference.
Ban said he would appeal to world leaders in Toyako "to deliver on the measures agreed to in Rome earlier this month to end the current food crisis and prevent a recurrence".
These measures include a commitment by nations to remove export restrictions and levies on food commodities and cut agricultural subsidies, particularly in developed countries.
Ban said he would also propose tripling the proportion of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from wealthy nations to developing countries for farm production and rural development.
"To overcome this crisis, we need nothing less than a second, green revolution," he said.
And noting that the international community was falling behind in its goal of achieving the poverty-reduction Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, he said: "If we are to deliver on this promised future, we must take steps today."
Give some dictator tons of money.
Plants your ethanol friendly crop.
Sells crop for ethanol production.
Population starving
Dictator retires to some beach were the women wear no tops.
Among the G8 only Russia is in the black. All the others will have to borrow, ‘finance’ creatively (credit deriviatives anyohne?)...and, all the others (their central banks) are insolvent, as is going to be uncovered in the near future, I believe.
Any talk about financing anything is going to meet deaf ears. In this country, Obamas Senate bill to raise $845 billion for world poverty is up for action after July 4th....US taxpayer rates moving up to 60% from 28% might do it...right?
I take it that the term "global warming" has now been officially jettisoned?
He’s going to raise the capital gains tax too, although he’s not sure what it is.
Green Back Revolution
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