Sunday, December 12, 2010

Action on green technology will gain prominence in 2011


We asked our advisory panel of leading sustainability thinkers to predict how 2011 will shape up. Nations with green technology will steal a march in the global 'grand game' of economic dominance

As governments get stuck into the next round of international negotiations on climate change in Cancun, they face a painful conundrum. Domestic politics in the US have made it nigh on impossible for countries to sign a legally binding agreement in Mexico. Yet the need for such an agreement is ever more obvious as climate impacts accelerate. But 2011 is shaping up to be an interesting year when it comes to action outside the UN process.

In the US a complaint from the union of steel workers has been taken forward by trade representatives.

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