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The leaders of all countries face enormous economic and environmental challenges caused by the Old Carbon Economy
World leaders face enormous economic and environmental challenges: climate change, financial crisis and peak oil. The Millennium Development Goals look more distant than ever. Between March 2007 and March 2008, global food prices increased an average of 43 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. Desertification puts the health of more than 1.2 billion people in more than 100 countries at risk, according to the United Nations. Recognizing the threat of biodiversity loss, The United Nations General Assembly has now declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity.The leaders the world are looking for economic solutions that
- make us independent of fossil fuels
- reverse climate change
- create jobs
- make our soils fertile without side effects
- solve the water shortage problem
- preserve the biodiversity of our planet
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