Climate Change
International Federation of Parks & Recreation Administration
Press Release - November 2008
There is little doubt that the realities of climate change as they gain greater acknowledgment and policy responses, will lead to the emergence of new industries and economic models.
These new initiatives will almost certainly be based around investments in ‘clean’ technologies and the natural infrastructure such as forests, soils and water. They are likely to drive the evolution of new professions and an employment boom in the 21st century.
Achim Steiner, UNRP Executive Director, said recently ‘the financial, food and fuel crisis if 2008 are in part a result of speculation and a failure of governments to intelligently manage and focus markets’. By this, he means that an economic focus has occurred at the expense of social and environmental issues.
He indicated that the failure in particular had lead to the disturbing loss of environmental capital and nature-based assets, and based around the over reliance on finite and over-subsidised fuels.
An Ifpra spokesperson said today that the opportunities presented socially and environmentally, would spawn a need to revise our current practices, which most often had a singular economic focus.
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