WWF: Environment jeopardised by economic adjustment plans

摘要

There is an urgent need to find sustainable solutions to the global financial crisis in order to preserve the natural capital that underpins successful economic activity. In letters addressed, on 6 January, to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, and to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) sounds the alarm and emphasises that "the crisis, in addition to being grounded in mismanagement of national finances, is a reflection of a deficient economic development model built on overconsumption and a steadily increasing ecological deficit and natural resource over-exploitation".