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Sending a Signal from Paris : Transforming the Economy to Achieve Zero Net Emissions / Jim Yong Kim.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Jim Yong.
- Series:
- Speeches of World Bank Presidents
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air Quality.
- Carbon Emissions.
- Clean Energy.
- Climate.
- Climate Change.
- Climate Change Economics.
- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases.
- Deforestation.
- Discount Rate.
- Electricity.
- Emissions.
- Energy.
- Energy Efficiency.
- Environment.
- Environment and Energy Efficiency.
- Finance.
- Financial Crisis.
- Financial Institutions.
- Infrastructure.
- Insurance.
- Land.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Pollutants.
- Power Plants.
- Public Transit.
- Rainfall.
- Renewable Energy.
- Storms.
- Taxes.
- Transport.
- Local Subjects:
- Air Quality.
- Carbon Emissions.
- Clean Energy.
- Climate.
- Climate Change.
- Climate Change Economics.
- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases.
- Deforestation.
- Discount Rate.
- Electricity.
- Emissions.
- Energy.
- Energy Efficiency.
- Environment.
- Environment and Energy Efficiency.
- Finance.
- Financial Crisis.
- Financial Institutions.
- Infrastructure.
- Insurance.
- Land.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Pollutants.
- Power Plants.
- Public Transit.
- Rainfall.
- Renewable Energy.
- Storms.
- Taxes.
- Transport.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 pages)
- Other Title:
- Sending a Signal from Paris
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2014.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, focuses on economic policy as the key to mobilizing a coordinated global response to climate change. He talks about the need to confront climate change, without which there will be no hope of ending poverty or boosting shared prosperity. He adds that the longer the delay in tackling climate change, the higher the cost will be to do the right thing for our planet and our children. He affirms that from the Paris meeting we will make the rallying cry for effective management of local, national and global economies to fight climate change. The Paris agreement needs to speak as loudly of economic transformation as it does of pollution or carbon emissions targets. Carbon pricing that can raise revenues and can be used to generate more economic and social benefits. Specific efforts are needed to scale up renewable energy and develop carbon capture and sequestration technology, at a pace that will allow us to reach carbon neutrality by the end of the century. He concludes by saying that he will drive the World Bank Group and all its capabilities--financial, technical, and human--to support this development transition toward the goal of preserving our planet for all future generations.
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