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| The end is nigh, apparently (Picture: MetroUK) |
That’s according to a leading economist, who believes that
decisions being made by governments at meetings over the next six months will
play a crucial role in securing the safety of the planet.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the UN special adviser and director
of The Earth Institute believes that three key meetings in July, September and
November, will present ‘our generation’s best chance to get on track’.
He identified the Financing for Development meeting in Addis
Adaba, the adoption of new Sustainable Development Goals in New York, and the
UN Climate Change Conference in Paris as being instrumental in the battle to
end global poverty and protect the environment.
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| Professor Jeffrey Sachs |
‘We are now right at that moment’, he told the Telegraph.
‘The time has finally arrived – we’ve been talking about
these six months for many years but we’re now here. This is certainly our
generation’s best chance to get on track.
‘Such diplomatic opportunities only come around every decade
or so, and here they are all aligned in six months. We need to be successful.
Professor Sachs is an adviser to UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon, and helped to establish the Millennium Development Goals – a series of
global anti-poverty targets established in the year 2000 that were meant to be
achieved by 2015.
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