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Will we do whatever it takes to tackle
climate
change?
So for the climate, history may judge that the banking crisis happened at just the wrong time.
So, let's go back to that original question: Can we print money for
climate
finance?
Because
climate
change is a shared global problem, there are some really compelling reasons why we should be printing that international currency that's issued by the IMF, to fund it.
As a first step, why don't we start spending those unused, those extra SDRs that were printed in 2009, to combat
climate
change?
This was a fund created in 2009, following that
climate
agreement in Copenhagen.
And it was designed to channel funds towards developing countries to meet their
climate
projects.
The first is it's really easy to argue that spending money to mitigate
climate
change benefits everyone.
So what could we do with 300 other pay-for-performance
climate
projects like that, organized on a global scale?
So, let's not quibble about whether we can afford to fund
climate
change.
I consider it my life's mission to convey the urgency of
climate
change through my work.
My process begins with traveling to the places at the forefront of
climate
change.
But globalists make the case that reinforcing our global governance is the only way to tackle big supernational problems, like nuclear proliferation, the global refugee crisis,
climate
change or terrorism or even the consequences of superhuman AI.
We wanted to come up with technical solutions to address
climate
change.
So 25 years ago, environmental writer Bill McKibben said that because nature was a thing apart from man and because
climate
change meant that every centimeter of the Earth was altered by man, then nature was over.
And as
climate
changes, this is creating a perfect storm for extreme events, like the massive mountain pine beetle outbreak that just swept across North America, or that megafire in the last couple months in Alberta.
So I want to come back to my final question: instead of weakening our forests, how can we reinforce them and help them deal with
climate
change?
And get this: if we change our approach to sanitation, we can start to slow down
climate
change.
Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, and it's getting more frequent because of
climate
change effects.
Fossil fuels create
climate
change.
We know that, and we know how vulnerable we are to the impacts of
climate
change.
Also, and this makes me extremely proud, a Costa Rican woman, Christiana Figueres, played a decisive role in the negotiations of the Paris
climate
agreement.
Last year, we brought people from our seven provinces to talk about
climate
change in terms that matter to them, and we also brought this year another group of Costa Ricans to talk about renewable energy.
And I'm telling you, this is not a question of
climate
policy or environmental agenda.
And that's not surprising, given the bad news all around us, from ISIS to inequality, political dysfunction,
climate
change, Brexit, and on and on.
And if you care about
climate
change, you've got to go in the opposite direction to 100 percent of our electricity from clean energy sources, as quickly as possible.
People think of California as a clean energy and
climate
leader, but when we looked at the data, what we found is that, in fact, California reduced emissions more slowly than the national average, between 2000 and 2015.
But when you look at the data, German emissions have actually been going up since 2009, and there's really not anybody who's going to tell you that they're going to meet their
climate
commitments in 2020.
It basically blew through all of our
climate
commitments for the year.
What's interesting is that when you look at countries that have deployed different kinds of clean energies, there's only a few that have done so at a pace consistent with dealing with the
climate
crisis.
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