Co-chair of IPCC: Climate policy distributes the world’s new wealth « Canadians for Action on Climate Change
Edenhofer, a German economist who is "co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change
"The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War."
"it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization."
"has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole."
German to English translation | Original Speech Below
14 November 2010, NZZ am Sonntag
"Climate policy distributes the world’s new wealth
Climate change has to do with environmental protection, with little, says the economist Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is really a business summit during which concerns the distribution of resources.
Interview: Bernard Potter
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