It's Time to Put a Price on Carbon (Huffington Post)
Kofi Annan, Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation and The Elders
Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico
The over-riding need is agreement on a goal for all nations to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 [and] a binding international agreement on pricing carbon emissions.
Nelson Mandela, who founded The Elders in 2007, believed transformative leaders needed the generosity and courage to see beyond narrow self-interest. No challenge requires these qualities as much, or as urgently, as climate change.
As the complex negotiations between 195 member state representatives gather pace in Lima, Peru, at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-20), we once again raise our hopes that this time things will be different, and a draft framework will emerge that will be the basis of a new Climate Agreement that nations sign up to in Paris in 2015.
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