U.N.: EARTH SUMMIT NEGOTIATED THE SIZE OF THE ZERO

"The environmental crisis is as big a challenge as the financial crisis, and it might even be bigger and longer lasting," Ambassador Palitha Kohona, Sri Lanka's permanent representative to the United Nations, told IPS. "We need progress on implementation," he added, and this...

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Published inGlobal Information Network
Main Author Deen, Thalif
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LanguageEnglish
Published New York Global Information Network 06.06.2012
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Summary:"The environmental crisis is as big a challenge as the financial crisis, and it might even be bigger and longer lasting," Ambassador Palitha Kohona, Sri Lanka's permanent representative to the United Nations, told IPS. "We need progress on implementation," he added, and this "includes reaffirming past commitments and initiatives on trade, financing for development, technology transfer and capacity building." "If your family is freezing, you will cut down the last tree for fuel; if they are starving, you will raze the forest to farm. With little certainty about the future, you will insure yourself by having more children to care for you," said [Bjorn Lomborg], author of "Cool It: the Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming".