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AFP: Climate change fight could create many jobs: aid experts

Climate change fight could create many jobs: aid experts9 hours ago DOHA (AFP)  1 Dec 08 — Aid specialists support a claim by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that efforts to adapt to climate change could create “millions of jobs” if enough funding is available.”There is huge potential,” particularly in developing countries, according to Poonam Ahluwalia, president of Youth Employment Summit, a US-based group which specialises in the creation of sustainable employment for young people.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The YES campaign, funded by the US government aid programme, Microsoft and Levi Strauss, aims to create two million green employment opportunities by 2012.

“We can no longer view addressing the climate crisis, poverty eradication efforts, and providing employment opportunities for youth in developing countries as separate from each other,” Ahuwalia said.

Dan Timms, senior spokesman for Oxfam, said the organisation is already implementing many climate change adaptation projects which will maintain existing low-energy occupations or create sustainable new jobs.

AFP: Climate change fight could create many jobs: aid experts

December 1, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized