In a Hard talk programme broadcast on December 11 on BBC News, Zeinab Badawi talks to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Achim Steiner defines the key elements of a Global Green New Deal. The events and the international responses of 2008 provide that opportunity to shift the global economy to one where markets and corporations who invest and re-invest in a low polluting,

resource efficiency, low carbon and more intelligently-managed world are rewarded. Accelerating a global transition provides the seeds of sustainability rather than decline; improved levels of employment for more rather than less people; the chance to avert calamities like climate change and a fresh financial paradigm that values real productive capital rather than illusory, speculative assets. At this moment in time, world leaders need not only to spend financial but also significant political capital on these ideas.
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Gathering Storm - The humanitarian impact of climate change
As the Poznan Climate Change conference enters its final days, UNEP, with IRIN (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ),is pleased to announce the launch of eight short videos exploring the human cost of climate change in Africa. While climate change is not new to Africa, the pace of change has accelerated, as it has in many other parts of the world. Examining specific examples of change in Africa can help shed light on the causes of change, the problems engendered, and possible solutions. Watch the series on-line »

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