High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance -- (New IMF Chief, setting price on Carbon strategy )

USCan ^ | February 12, 2010 | US Climate Action network

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During a press conference on February 12, 2010, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF). The panelists, described below, will work together to mobilize the financial resources for climate change that were pledged at the Copenhagen Summit.

The group’s objectives include developing practical proposals to significantly scale-up both short-term and long-term financing for mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries, in particular by jump-starting the mobilization of new and innovative resources to reach $100 billion annually by 2020,

High-Level Panel Profiles

Christine Lagarde

...Christine Lagarde Christine Lagarde made history as the first female chairman of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie and is the first woman ever to become minister of Economic Affairs of a G8 economy. She has repeatedly said that climate change is an economic issue and the cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of action.

Setting a price on carbon and involving the private sector are her two main strategy points for combatting climate change.

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Also on the panel George Soros,
full panel at link.

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wow. the world’s economy is crumbling, because of toxic mortgages the CRA forced, Obamacare, oil and food prices, etc.
and the most important thing to the head of the IMF, is to spend up to $100 billion annually, to fight AGW ?

when the world has been getting colder since 2003?
when the CO2 level was much HIGHER just 80 years ago?
when top astrophysicists for years have been predicting a “little ice age” Solar Minimum, to last another 20-30 years?

...largest most costly scam, in human history.

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The past IMF head looks like he was set-up with a scandal which resulted in his resignation.

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