摘要:If the world is successfully to navigate the Road Map agreed at the Bali climate
change negotiations in December, ways need to be found to mobilize and
focus the trillions of dollars in the world’s financial and capital markets on the
greening of the global economy.
Such greening has already begun, driven by the Kyoto Protocol, anticipation
of even deeper cuts from a new climate regime after 2012 — and by the
growing realization that if 21st century economies are to compete, flourish
and deliver a new generation of jobs, they will need to be more resource
efficient and less dependent on finite natural resources. Now the challenge is
to accelerate and mainstream these real, tangible but fledgling beginnings.