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Speech by Achim Steiner on the Global Green Economy and Israel
...However, something quite remarkable has occurred in less than 12 months.
The convergence of first the food and fuel crises followed by the financial and now economic crisis have triggered a global response in terms of political cooperation and the mobilizing of stimulus packages of almost unimaginable proportions. The question now is how will the around $3 trillion-worth of stimulus packages be spent-on the old brown economy or a new Green one that might set the stage for a truly sustainable century? An economy able to deal with multiple challenges-from food and fuel to climate change, employment and natural resource constraints-as integrated and inter-linked ones....Investing one per cent of global GDP, or around $750 billion, into five key sectors could be the key to a Global Green New Deal. Broadly those five sectors are:-
- Raising the energy efficiency of old and new buildings
- Renewable energies including wind, solar, geothermal and biomass
- Sustainable transport including hybrid vehicles; high speed rail and bus rapid transit systems
- The planet's ecological infrastructure including freshwaters, forests, soils and coral reefs
- Sustainable agriculture including organic production
The Policy Brief also calls for a range of specific measures aimed at assisting poorer countries to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and green their economies.
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'Fish Technology' Draws Renewable Energy From Slow Water Currents
Slow-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer has made a machine that works like a fish to turn potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows into clean, renewable power. |
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