Green Investments Now - Reverseeconomic Downturn And Halt Climaternchange: The Guardian -11 February

摘要

Governments across the world must commit to hundreds of billions of pounds in green investments within months in a combined attack on the global economic crisis and global warming, according to leading economists including Nicholas Stern.rnThe team says some $400 billion should be channelled to support low-carbon technologies such as home insulation and renewable energy. Given the urgency of both the economic and climate crises, it wants the green investment made by this summerrnand to total 20 per cent of the ￡1.4 trillioin likely to be spent globally as fiscal stimulus.rnLord Stern, the former Treasury economist and now chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said: "With billions about to be spent by governments on energy, buildings and transport, it is vital that these public investments do not lock us for many more decades into a costly and unsustainable high-carbon economy."