Need a global emergency solution for climate change

On January 16, the Global Investors Summit on climate change and energy solutions took place at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

The conference affirmed the climate change challenge that needs global emergency solutions because this phenomenon has become the biggest factor in investment calculations in the near future.

The world needs a sprint race, not just a marathon on climate change.

More than 450 global investors currently controlling tens of trillions of dollars of capital stressed that the world has never needed urgent action to cope with climate change and its dangers today.

Although total investment in clean energy has increased more than five times since 2005 and reached US $ 260 billion in 2011, the global policy framework needs to really change the way the economy operates. to raise the attention of policy makers and investors on the urgency of the solution to climate change.

Investors need to change their investment and business methods to promote new energy solutions. Solar technology is currently leading the way in increasing capital investment and has reached nearly $ 138 billion, up 36% in 2011.

In addition, the United Nations also warned of the risk of "false options" between strong economic investment and strong environmental investment.

Investing in sustainability is no longer an external factor in the picture of companies' activities. The company that ignores the high risk of climate change means missing out on very attractive market signals and will not recruit young business talents.

The United Nations urges global investors to promote a new action plan to develop technologies that emit greenhouse gases, while closely monitoring the risks of climate change.

UN experts on climate change emphasize the need to make important changes through specific efforts to combat climate change at a landmark moment in 2017.