Green Options » developed http://greenoptions.com/tag/developed Posts tagged 'developed' Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:07:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Trade and Climate Policies Must Be Linked in Post-Kyoto World http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/trade-and-climate-policies-must-be-linked-in-post-kyoto-world/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/trade-and-climate-policies-must-be-linked-in-post-kyoto-world/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:07:04 +0000 Joshua S Hill http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/trade-and-climate-policies-must-be-linked-in-post-kyoto-world/ 386198516_cc06f2ee5d An article over at SciDev.net today has caught my attention, as it should yours. Written by Glen Peters, a senior research fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway, the article focuses on the idea that in a post-Kyoto Protocol world, trade and climate policies must be linked.

Peters’ main example was, rightfully so, China, and the mixed responsibilities in ensuring that their export and trade industry does not single-handedly doom the planet to a carbon ridden future.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/trade-and-climate-policies-must-be-linked-in-post-kyoto-world/feed/ United Nations Says Tens of Millions of Green Jobs to be Created by 2030 http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/25/united-nations-says-tens-of-millions-of-green-jobs-to-be-created-by-2030/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/25/united-nations-says-tens-of-millions-of-green-jobs-to-be-created-by-2030/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:48:36 +0000 Andrew Williams http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/25/united-nations-says-tens-of-millions-of-green-jobs-to-be-created-by-2030/ A new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) predicts that alternative energy technologies will create millions of new jobs over the next twenty years, including 11 million in the biofuels industry alone.

The report, Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World, says that shifting employment and investment patterns adopted in response to the challenges of global warming are already creating new jobs in many sectors and economies, and could create millions more across both the developed and developing world. In sum, UNEP predicts nothing short of a revoluton in the way the world economy will look over the next two decades.

In other highlights, the report has also found that:

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