As world leaders, mayors, aid officials and representatives from civil society and the private sector gather on Tuesday in New York for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s climate summit, the message is clear: We need to act now to truly win the battle against global warming.
Devex caught up with a few experts to find out what they expect to come out of the summit, which lies outside the official framework negotiations on climate change led by the UNFCCC.
“Tackling climate change doesn’t need new money ... there’s trillions of dollars being invested in technologies and energy, they’ve just been invested in the wrong kind of technology,” noted Dr. Saleem Huq, a senior fellow in the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development’s Climate Change Group.