IMF working on $100bn ‘green fund’ – Strauss-Kahn

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “working on the idea of a green fund” to raise $100-billion a year by 2020 to mitigate the impacts of climate change on developing economies, IMF MD Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a conference in Kenya on Monday.

He noted that climate change could “well be the shock to end all shocks”, with the amount of resources needed to mitigate climate change having clear macroeconomic implications.

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Van Schalkwyk nominated to succeed De Boer as UN climate chief

The South African government has put forward the name of Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk to the United Nations (UN) to potentially lead the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

If trace amounts of carbon dioxide really threaten to kill all of our grandchildren, why is fossil-fueled tourism still legal?