Climate Change Expert Worries Financial Crisis Will be 'Excuse' to Delay Action

UN special envoy on the environment and climate change for Papua New Guinea, Kevin Conrad says the financial crisis should not be used as an excuse to halt climate change efforts. Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 1, 2008

Interesting to read more than a month after publication. We've now seen multiple bailout measures approved at home and the financial crisis ripple across world economies rapidly. It seems inconceivable now that efforts to address climate change will supersede attempts to control deflation, unemployment, etc., anytime soon. In this interview, Kevin Conrad is in retrospect prescient about some things.

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