GEI in the News

Green Economy Initiative

GEI in the News


2009

October 2009

	UN News Centre	UN convenes world tourism leaders to plan recovery after economic crisis (7 October 2009)
	Xinhuanet.com	Governors' Global Climate Summit opens in Los Angeles (1 October 2009)
September 2009
	The New York Times	Stimulus Is Greenest in South Korea and China (25 September 2009)
	Thaindian	G20 leaders must provide more money to fight climate change: WWF (25 September 2009)
	Climate-L.org	UNEP Publishes Global Green New Deal Update (25 September 2009)
	Reuters	China, S.Korea lead in green stimulus investment (24 September 2009)
	IPS Europe	G20: STIGLITZ AND SEN COME IN TOO LATE (24 September 2009)
	The Washington Post	On Global Warming, an Ambitious Agenda (22 September 2009)

August 2009
	Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)	‘Greening’ Hotels for responsible tourism (17 August 2009)
	Scitizen (France)	Agroforestry & Sustainable Agriculture: Vast Potential to Lower Emissions, Store Carbon (8 August 2009)
	PRWeb (US)	US Biofuels Fuels Up for Green Economy (5 August 2009)

July 2009
	Xinhua (China)	UNEP urges world to invest in "greening" economies (21 July 2009)
	AZO Cleantech (Australia)	Big Bankers Back Environmentally Friendly Green Investments (16 July 2009)

June 2009
	UN News Centre	Free trade can help combat global warming, finds UN report (29 June 2009)

May 2009
	The Standard -(Kenya)	State under pressure to embrace green revolution (26 May 2009)
	BBC	One Planet: BBC's Mike Williams speaks to Achim Steiner (7 May 2009)

April 2009
	Korea Herald	Green Growth - Korea's New Strategy: Power green growth, protect the planet (15 April 2009)
	BBC	PM heralds 'green economy' budget (8 April 2009)
	L'Economist	'New Deal vert ' (2 April 2009)
	HLN.BE	Dringend nood aan groene economie (2 April 2009)
	Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch)	Nu de kans grijpen om de wereld te verduurzamen (1 April 2009)

March 2009
	World Economic Forum	Business Ready to Work on Building the Low-Carbon Economy (31 March 2009)
	UN World Tourism Organization UN World Tourism Organization	Tourism and the G20 Summit (31 March 2009) Placing Tourism and Travel in Global Stimulus Packages and the Green Economy (31 March 2009)
	Food & Agriculture Organization for the United Nations	Forests and the global economy: 10 million new jobs (10 March 2009)
	European Commission	Cohesion Policy backs "green economy" for growth and long-term jobs in Europe (9 March 2009)
	Stern Review	A Green Solution for Financial and Planetary Peril? (4 March 2009)

February 2009
	Environment news.gov.hk	Tech, creative, green sectors to grow (25 February 2009)
	Reuters	Global "green" energy stimulus hits $200 bln -bank (24 February 2009)
	Ontario News	Ontario's Bold New Plan for a Green Economy (23 February 2009)
	The Times of India	Let's Go Green (21 February 2009)
	Straits Times	The heat is on (21 February 2009)
	DW World	Le Forum mondial du PNUE à Nairobi (20 February 2009)
	Business Daily Africa	Environnement: Accord sur une "économie verte" (20 February 2009)
	The Hindu	"Green" investment to boost anti-recession efforts: UNEP (17 February 2009)
	lemonde.fr	La crise offre l'occasion de décarboner l'économie (17 February 2009)
	wir-klimaretter.de	Umweltminister arbeiten an der Revolution (17 February 2009)
	Xinhua	PNUE : l'investissement dans l'environnement peut relancer la croissance économique (17 February 2009)
	Jornal Correio de Noticias	ONU pede apoio para novo acordo climático (17 February 2009)
	Angola Press	ONU quer Novo Diálogo ecológico mundial contra a crise (16 February 2009)
	Africa Science News	Green agenda to dominate environment ministers meeting (16 February 2009)
	The Guatemala Times	New Green Deal proposed by United Nations Environment Programme (16 February 2009)
	Earth Times	Environment experts call for urgent shift to green economy (16 February 2009)
	VEJA.com	ONU quer 'New Deal' ecológico contra a crise (16 February 2009)
	Reuters Africa	UN urges G20 leaders to back "Green New Deal" (16 February 2009)
	Vedura	L'ONU appelle à un "New Deal écologique mondial (16 February 2009)
	RadioNetherlands Worldwide	UN organisation calls for Green New Deal (16 February 2009)
	Les echos	L'ONU appelle à un "New Deal" écologique (16 February 2009)
	Financial Times	UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, and former US Vice-President, Al Gore on "Green Growth is Essential to any Stimulus" (16 February 2009)
	Gazeta do sul	ONU pede que países do G20 destinem 1% do PIB para ações ambientais (16 February 2009)
	Estadao.com	ONU pede que líderes do G20 apoiem novo acordo climático (16 February 2009)
	De Morgen.be	"Dringend nood aan groene economie" (16 February 2009)
	ABC rural	Reinventing the Planet: the Global Green New Deal. (11 February 2009)
	Taipei Times	Environmental investments a necessity, not a luxury (7 February 2009)

January 2009
	Reuters	Japan mulls expanding green business market, jobs (7 January 2009)
	United Nations	The Secretary-General plenary speech at world economic forum on "the global compact: creating sustainable markets" (29 January 2009)
	Environmental Expert.com	G-20 summit in April will look at boosting low-carbon economy (27 January 2009)
	Bloomberg.com	Japan Aims to Create Jobs Through Green Technology, Saito Says (6 January 2009)
	China Dialogue	Sticking to a truly “green” stimulus (20 January 2009)

2008
Year 2008 - Press coverage
	Asahi Shimbun	Curbing Climate Change (17 December 2008)
	BBC News - Hardtalk	Zeinab Badawi talks to Achim Steiner (11 December 2008)
	Financial Times	Out of the Malaise (1 December 2008)
	China Dialogue	Building a green economy (26 November 2008)
	Il Sole 24 Ore.com	Green New Deal (20 November 2008)
	Ideas for Development	Towards a Green Economy-Elements of a Global Green New Deal (21 November 2008)
	Real Change	"Green New Deal" takes shape in Europe (12 to 18 November 2008)
	The Economist	Green, easy and wrong (6 November 2008)
	Economist.com	Gathering clouds (6 November 2008)
	China Daily	Japan announces $275 billion stimulus package (31 October 2008)
	The Nation	Working together for a green new deal (29 October 2008)
	Reuters	"Carbon army" hopes to grab slice of New Deal cash (29 October 2008)
	Daily Times	Big green jobs machine (23 October 2008)
	Le Soir Le Soir	L’appel à un « new deal » vert planétaire (23 October 2008) L'indispensable « new deal » vert et éthique (23 October 2008)
	The Independent	A 'Green New Deal' can save the world's economy, says UN (21 October 2008)
	Gulf Times	Age of green economics (22 October 2008)
	El Economista	"New Deal" approach needed for climate change: U.N (22 October 2008)
	The New York Times	The Green New Deal (22 October 2008)
	Circuito Mato Grosso	Programa Ambiental da ONU quer novo acordo para o clima (22 October 2008)
	The Independent	Organic farming 'could feed Africa' (22 October 2008)
	Le Monde	L'économie "verte" promet des millions d'emplois (26 September 2008)
	New Economics Foundation	UK needs ‘Green New Deal’ to tackle ‘triple crunch’ of credit, oil price and climate crises (21 July 2008)
	The Guardian	Wanted: a green 'new deal' (9 April 2008)