Jagdeo calls on world leaders to address policy failures

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)President Bharrat Jagdeo believes that a combination of robust analytics, proof of action and an informed and critical mass of countries advocating for systemic, international policy change can transform global policies into becoming a reality rather than a vision.
Global Green Growth Institute President Bharrat Jagdeo

Global Green Growth Institute President Bharrat Jagdeo
Speaking to member countries at the Green Growth Summit in Songdo, South Korea, the former Guyanese head of state acknowledged that these are the very elements which present significant challenges. Jagdeo stressed that the world can ill afford failure at reaching a global climate deal that contains the level of ambition needed to achieve a two-degree pathway or less.
He noted that the agreement must be made by 2015 and implemented by 2020, with climate financing totalling US$100 billion by 2020 as agreed in Cancun.
“If today’s leaders and those who influence them sleepwalk through the next few years, the window to make these things happen will close, and they will be responsible for a catastrophic derogation of responsibility to the generation which follows.”