ECONOMIES WORLDWIDE must start using “green” technologies to overhaul production processes in their effort to end poverty while averting the impact of climate change and environmental degradation, said a United Nations (UN) report launched in the Philippines on Monday.
The report, titled: “The World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation” and published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), said that about $1.9 trillion per year will be needed for incremental investments in green technologies over the next 40 years.
More than one-half, or $1.1 trillion per year, of the required investments will need to be made in developing countries to help them meet their rapidly increasing food and energy demand.
Such investments should be channeled into a vast area of activities, including clean energy, sustainable farming and forestry techniques, “climate-proofing” infrastructure and reducing nonbiodegradable waste production, the report said.
“If we keep on using the technologies we have today, it will make the planet unlivable,” Manuel F. Montes, chief of UN-DESA’s Development Policy and Analysis Division, said during his presentation of the report yesterday in the University of the Philippines, Diliman. “Therefore, we have to change the current technologies, but at the same time increase these new green technologies for the poor people. Otherwise, they will never overcome their poverty. So, there are two objectives: overcome poverty and the other one is to prevent the adverse effects of climate change.”
“Business as usual is not an option,” lead author Rob Vos wrote in the report. “Even if we stop the global engines of growth now, resource depletion and pollution of our natural environment would continue because of existing production methods and consumption habits.”
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Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
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Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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