{"id":3164,"date":"2012-02-14T12:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rtcc.org\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2012-02-14T12:13:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:13:28","slug":"brundtland-use-fight-against-poverty-to-deal-with-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2012\/02\/14\/brundtland-use-fight-against-poverty-to-deal-with-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Brundtland: Use fight against poverty to deal with climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTCC Staff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3165\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3165\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3165\" title=\"gro_brundtland_mosseby\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2012\/02\/gro_brundtland_mosseby-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2012\/02\/gro_brundtland_mosseby-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2012\/02\/gro_brundtland_mosseby.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brundtland calls for poverty eradication to boost sustainable development ahead of Rio+20 (source: Mosseby\/creative commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Poverty eradication should be used as a catalyst for sustainable development and climate action, according to the former Norwegian Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brundtland was a key author in the 1987 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/policy\/un-report-lack-of-political-will-hindering-sustainable-development\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brundtland report<\/a>, which for the first time clearly defined sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>And she says with the Rio+20 summit in June approaching, the recommendadtions published 25 years ago are still relevant today.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/week.manoramaonline.com\/cgi-bin\/MMOnline.dll\/portal\/ep\/theWeekContent.do?programId=1073754900&amp;contentId=11021715\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Week<\/em><\/a> she said the political and economic changes needed to face the challenges of climate change were not getting enough support around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still not seeing eye to eye on how this has to be solved. If we continue like business as usual, it is going to be a disaster,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the leaders and populations have to face the challenges in cooperation and by sharing the responsibility for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving said this, in the last [climate] meeting in Durban, everyone, including India, agreed on a framework that included all kinds of countries. But the details \u2013 in the coming years how they are going to find a common solution \u2013 are still not here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She called for action to eradicate poverty to be coupled with action on sustainable development, offering the biggest potential moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe climate challenge illustrates how we have to change,\u201d Brundtland said. \u201cThe developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s why the rich world has to be forthcoming to help change the patterns of development. Because in developing countries, poverty has to be overcome and energy is crucial to this and that means we need more clean energy across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poverty eradication must be used to boost sustainable development and climate action, said former Norwegian Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3858],"tags":[625,150,556],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","tag-poverty","tag-rio20","tag-sustainable-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brundtland: Use fight against poverty to deal with climate change<\/title>\n<meta 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