WORKING GROUPSMeeting with the Executive Director of UNEP
Meeting Achim Steiner, who runs UNEP, was very useful. Far from being an environmentalist ideologue, Mr Steiner was pragmatic about the need to make sure that climate change is part of normal economic planning - particularly since the financial crisis has taken over policy discussions.
For him, the New Green deal is about transitioning all economies, new and old to a green economy. It is about jobs, and economic growth, but also about incentivising economic growth to ensure that it is green growth and green technology. Here the role of government at local and global is to introduce both market based instruments and legislation. He quoted new research that job creation for the world poor will not take place in the 'old' industrial sectors such as steel and cars but in new sectors in the environmental sector. As for Poznan, the issue under discussion here is financing adaptation, forestry and new technologies and of course reduction targets. J.W.
For him, the New Green deal is about transitioning all economies, new and old to a green economy. It is about jobs, and economic growth, but also about incentivising economic growth to ensure that it is green growth and green technology. Here the role of government at local and global is to introduce both market based instruments and legislation. He quoted new research that job creation for the world poor will not take place in the 'old' industrial sectors such as steel and cars but in new sectors in the environmental sector. As for Poznan, the issue under discussion here is financing adaptation, forestry and new technologies and of course reduction targets. J.W.
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