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How To Finance A New Climate Economy  
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the Financial Times.

Over the next fifteen years, the world needs to invest more in new infrastructure and upgrades than everything that exists today. This means we have a crucial window of opportunity to build it right, reflecting the new international priorities of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.

If we continue on our current high-carbon economic model, the world will need to invest more than $90tn in infrastructure. But it won't cost much more to build our energy, transport, water, and telecommunications systems in a low-carbon way. Making our infrastructure cleaner and more sustainable could add as little as 5 per cent to upfront costs, which could be fully offset by lower operating costs. It would also make our economy cleaner, more efficient, and more productive. Plus, it would reduce the enormous costs of adapting to climate change.

We know the capital exists for low-carbon infrastructure; we just need to unlock it. There are four key steps we should take to do so.



First, once and for all we need to get rid of the market distortions that are biasing investment toward high-carbon projects. Subsidies to fossil fuels cost up to $600bn per year, many times what is received by renewable energy. These subsidies encourage inefficient energy use, discourage the development of clean energy technologies, and intensify air pollution.

Governments and investors who don't take into account these costs are liable to make uninformed decisions that are bad for them, their citizens, and the planet as a whole. For the market to reflect the true value of infrastructure investments, countries ought to reform subsidies and introduce meaningful carbon prices. More than 40 countries and 500 companies have begun pricing carbon, and initiatives like the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition are helping others learn from each other's successes. I expect the pace of change to accelerate now that the Paris Agreement has shifted expectations globally toward a low-carbon growth path.

Second, we need to invest in innovation. Currently, only about 2 per cent of overall R&D spending goes to low-carbon projects. Developing new, cheaper green tech solutions would go a long way in reducing upfront investment costs for infrastructure. And at the same time, more effective dissemination of existing technologies will be crucial because of the sheer volume of the power plants, buildings, roads, and rails that will be built in the next few years.

Third, we need to develop a pipeline of sustainable projects by strengthening public investment. When I was President of Mexico, our government put in place the most ambitious infrastructure program in Mexican history, raising annual investment from 3 per cent of GDP per year to almost 5 per cent.

We accomplished this by making infrastructure a national priority reflected in the public budget, cutting red tape, and partnering with the private sector. We also sought to innovate by monetising already functioning infrastructure to gather resources that could be invested in new projects through the National Infrastructure Fund. It's essential for every government to have a national strategy to coordinate planning.

Effective project preparation, pipelines and sound investment frameworks can help ensure that there's enough money for infrastructure projects, and that the right projects are picked in the first place. Throughout the process, multilateral development banks can offer technical assistance and reduce perceived risks through their presence.

And finally, we'll need to better harness private finance and align it with the sustainable future we want.

There are multiple ways to shift private capital into the green economy. One that has become popular in recent years is green bonds that are earmarked for sustainable investments. Issuances of green bonds grew to $41.8bn in 2015, three times higher than in 2012.

Five years from now, China's green bond market alone will likely be worth $230bn. Most green bonds are in the financial, energy, and property sectors, but they should be diversified to include transport, agriculture, waste, and adaptation. We also need to establish clear rules so investors know exactly what classifies a bond as green in each of these areas.

Green investment banks dedicated to sustainable infrastructure are another effective way to crowd-in private investment. So far, green banks have achieved attractive returns, and can leverage up to $10 from the private sector for each dollar of public spending. Dozens of green banks have emerged in recent years, including in countries like the UK, Japan, and Malaysia and in states like California, Connecticut, and New York.

And to truly green the financial system, companies and investors must acknowledge their exposure to climate risk and take it into account in investment decisions. Ignoring environmental factors that impact long-term value is a failure of fiduciary duty.

Several EU countries now mandate corporate reporting on greenhouse gas emissions or climate risk exposure. And the G20 has recently established an industry-led Task Force under the Financial Stability Board on voluntary Climate-related Financial Disclosures to come up with consistent ways for companies to disclose these risks. We look forward to its recommendations later this year as an important step forward.

Infrastructure could either be the pillar upon which we base our growth, development and future prosperity, or it could crumble beneath us. It is time for us all to realise that sustainable infrastructure is not just one potential pathway among many: it is the only growth story of the future.

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post to mark the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or, officially, "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"). The SDGs represent an historic agreement -- a wide-ranging roadmap to sustainability covering 17 goals and 169 targets -- but stakeholders must also be held accountable for their commitments. To see all the posts in the series, visit here.

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The Bore Tides of the Qiantang River (20 photos)  

For hundreds of years, on the eighth month of the lunar calendar, people have gathered along the shores of China's Qiantang River at the head of Hangzhou Bay to witness the waves of its famous bore tide. Higher-than-normal high tides push into the harbor, funneling into the river, causing a broad wave that can reach up to 30 feet high. If the waves surge over the banks, spectators can be swept up, pushed along walkways or down embankments. Below, I've gathered images from the past few years of the Qiantang bore tides.

 
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Rebooting The Food System  
Yesterday marked the beginning of a new global collaboration between the EAT Foundation (EAT), Jamie Oliver Food Foundation (JOFF) and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP): one that takes aim at obesity, hunger, climate change and environmental degradation all together.

We're in a crazy moment - we're battling the bulge while staving off hunger. Obesity and malnutrition literally live side by side in communities, and even families, around the globe. At the same time, we're choosing to use what precious natural resources we do have to fuel a food system that's making us - and our planet - sick. We continue to spend our limited resources in ways that threaten our lives, and jeopardize our future generations.

By 2040, there will be approximately nine billion of us to feed. With the planet already aching under our pressure, we know this course is unsustainable.

We're overweight - obesity has nearly doubled since 1980, with a staggering 30 per cent of us now overweight or obese. That's nearly 2 billion people globally - including 42 million children under the age of five. The knock-on effect is an escalating epidemic of non-communicable diseases. Low and middle-income countries are hit the hardest - and are now suffering the perverse reality of ballooning obesity and undernutrition at the same time.

We're starving - malnutrition and hunger haunt one in nine of us. It's the reason nearly half of all children under five die prematurely. Chronic malnutrition in early life leads to stunting; preventing children's bodies and brains from growing properly. This damage is irreversible and has huge consequences for their learning and their adult lives.

We're wasteful - we waste enough food every year to feed the world's hungry four times over. In rich countries, we produce more than we need and have standards in place that force good food into landfills instead of mouths. And, in low-income countries, good food perishes before it can get to the people who need it - largely because of limited and overburdened food transport and storage systems. It's not for lack of food - but rather poor use and distribution. In fact, rich countries' food waste is approximately equivalent to all of the food produced in Sub-Saharan Africa.

We're polluting ourselves - one third of the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change are from agriculture production. The livestock industry alone accounts for almost 15 per cent of all human-caused emissions. In addition, the global food system is driving deforestation and species extinction, and is depleting marine ecosystems and fresh water resources. We are putting a stranglehold on our oxygen sources, which we rely on to absorb the excess carbon we create.

And we're running out of band-aid solutions - the costs associated with obesity alone are astronomical, costing two trillion dollars every year. In the UK alone, more money is spent on the patchwork of issues caused by obesity than on the fire and police services combined.

With all of that weighing heavily on our minds, we have come together to start a collaboration that believes the recipe for good nutrition is equal parts what we put into our bodies, and what we put into the environment we live in. A growing body of research from across the field - published in leading scientific journals, such as Nature - suggests that healthy, plant-based diets (low in meat, animal products and processed foods) tend to be more environmentally sustainable, and vice versa. Changing what we eat - and how we produce it - is the closest we'll get to a silver bullet for improving the health of people and the planet.

However, to unlock that great potential, we need systemic change - and action across all sectors.

This is a huge business opportunity. The food sector is guaranteed to grow. An increasingly wealthy global population is demanding access to tasty and healthy food. Business has the opportunity to work with farmers to secure their livelihoods in the long-term. They can do this by supporting sustainable agricultural practices that improve environmental impacts and increase yield of healthy produce. They can ensure that farmers, as stewards of the environment and our diets, make a fair wage in all parts of the world. By living up to their ethical and health promises, they can grow their business - and change the food system to make us healthy, not sick.

Public sector and governments must be the voice of those hit hardest. They need to create integrated policies that make sustainably-produced, real food available (and more affordable), and prevent empty calories from being incentivized. Equally, they can be a vital bridge to lead kids out of the cycle of poverty and hunger. In developing countries, locally grown school meal programmes, which buy food from smallholder farmers, benefit the entire community. They fuel local businesses, as well as healthy bodies and minds. When schools have public sector support for meal programmes, they prime kids to learn. And provide the most vulnerable kids with what is often their only meal all day. Equally, it's essential that the curriculum teaches kids about sustainable farming practices, as it's the only way that crucial changes to the food system will take root.

Scientists must keep us honest and focused. We are lucky to live in a world where some of the brightest minds from across different disciplines are working to improve our health and reduce climate change, in all parts of the world. They need to keep ringing the alarm bells when we don't listen, keep credible research firmly in the public eye and keep collaborating to ensure that knowledge is shared.

All of us need to be advocates - with our voices and wallets - for these changes that we so urgently need, to make the food system we want. This is about prioritising the health prospects our children deserve, all over the world.

If we can work together to achieve the agendas we share, we know a better future is within sight.

Jamie Oliver, MBE, world-renowned chef and food campaigner

Dr. Gunhild A. Stordalen, Founder and President EAT Foundation

Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post and the EAT Foundation, in conjunction with the high-level side event, "Urban Food Systems: The Nutrition Challenge," during the 71st United Nations General Assembly in New York. The EATx at UNGA is a collaboration with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. #EATx #eatforum

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It's Time To Get Real On The Sustainable Development Goals  
Co-authored by Jonas Freist-Held, UN-Habitat Youth Advisor for Europe

In Munich, important stakeholders of German and international development gathered to discuss the Agenda 2030. In a nutshell: Germany wants to play a leading role in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - and the youth will play a central role in Germany's Agenda 2030.

Thursday morning, Munich, in the plenary of the German Museum. Bono's grinning face appears on the screen. "Guten Morgen!", the front singer of U2 greets, "I am sending you a message from the future. It's 2030. I am happy to tell you: There's no more AIDS; Tuberculosis - kaputt, Malaria kaputt." "Our world in 2030" is the slogan of the Conference on the Future organized by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). And so it is Bono, also activist and founder of ONE, that entertains the audience with the world he wants. "Germany plays a major role in making my wishes become true" he concludes.


Plenary session of the Conference on the Future.

Germany: An Extreme Developing Country
Prior to the conference, German Minister for International Cooperation and Development Gerd Müller, made a remarkable statement: "Germany", he said, "is an extreme developing country." What did he mean? In contrast to the prior eight Millennium Development Goals, the 17 SDGs don't only apply to the so-called developing countries but to all members of the United Nations. Germany is far from perfect. Just last week, for instance, a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation revealed that the number of children growing up in poverty has increased to 2.5 million in the last years. In terms of gender-equal economic participation and opportunities, Germany is only ranked 38th out of 142 countries worldwide. Burundi is 3rd, Malawi 12th and Ghana 13th. 32.2 percent of Germany's energy production comes from renewable sources - not bad in comparison to other OECD countries, but way too little to achieve the goals of the COP21 and SDG 13 on Climate Change. Brazil currently produces 73.5 percent of its energy consumption from renewables, Colombia 67.9 and Portugal 49.3.

Nevertheless, being one the world's biggest economies and richest countries, Germany has the power and money to play an important role in achieving the Agenda 2030. And one of the most important stakeholder groups is pushing the German government to pursue an ambitious agenda: the youth.

Youth Takeover
Prior to the conference and on invitation of the German government, 38 youth activists came together for a youth lab to discuss and negotiate about Germany's Agenda 2030. The activists represented a wide range of international, national and local organizations: Amnesty International, Commit e.V., German Association to the United Nations, NAJU, ONE, Plan International Germany, Plant for the Planet, UN Habitat Youth Advisory Board, UNICEF, German Red Cross and many more. The result: four policy claims in the categories poverty, prosperity, planet and peace.

Poverty is sexist!
We produce enough food to feed the world population of 7.4 billion. But still 795 million people suffer from hunger and mal-nourishment. In Germany, 18 million tons of food are thrown away every year - that are 313 kilograms per second! We have to rethink how food production is managed and how farmland is distributed. In this context: poverty is sexist. 90% of land is owned by men. If women would have equal access to resources as men, the number of undernourished people in the world could be reduced by 100-150 million. Thus, the German government should support women with microcredits and vocational training to found farms.

The IMF admitted it, Thomas Piketty wrote a bestseller about it and the Club of Rome emphasizes it in its new report: unregulated markets and economic inequality is poison for our societies. And it's increasing. "Our economic system has failed", Graeme Maxton, Secretary General of the Club of Rome, argues during his speech at the "Conference on the Future". As the wealth gap widens and widens - in 2010, 388 people possessed 50 percent of global wealth, today only 62 people come up for the same share - policy makers struggle to impose a tax on high-frequency trading of stocks and securities - a risky, but often profitable business for the super-rich. As trickle-down economics have failed, a financial transaction fee of 0.2 percent could help create a global development fund that tackles socio-economic inequality through distribution. Germany should be its loudest advocate.

Act Local, Think Global
We are chronically consuming too much. And the way we consume in our globalized world has become unsustainable and a threat to our planet's future. Minister Müller warns: "We are the first generation that is capable of wiping out the life on our planet because of our lifestyle. But we are also the first generation that has the instruments to prevent that." If we act. South American economies such as Brazil, Argentina or Paraguay have become highly dependent on growing and exporting soy - for example to feed cattle in Europe. This has severe consequences for our planet and the local economy: food production for local markets has decreased. The destruction of the rain forests proceeds in a frightening speed, at the expense of the world's biodiversity. On top, large companies make small farmers disappear, destroying their livelihood. Instead of importing fodder from Latin America, European countries should use its fertile soil to produce it themselves. To achieve challenging objectives, you need disruptive policies: The European Union should forbid fodder imports.

In a video message German chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany will focus on making progress on the SDGs during its upcoming presidency of the G20. "Development politics have never been as modern and important as today," Peter Altmaier, Merkel's chief of staff and right hand ascertained looking into the faces of a diverse and equally interested audience in the German Museum in Munich. The political and societal climate in Germany allows the government to play a proactive role in preserving peace, fostering development and tackling humanitarian crises worldwide. The country is one of the biggest net contributors to the UN-budget. This is remarkable, but we should not take it for granted in times when nationalism, protectionism and isolationism are on the rise worldwide. To invest in the tolerance and empathy of future generations, the German school curriculum should entail mandatory projects on humanity.

Think Big
Realistic claims? Some more, some less. But if we want to be serious about achieving the SDGs, the goals of the COP21 and the objectives of the New Urban Agenda business as usual won't work. We need creative ideas. We need disruptive policies. And we need a (global) youth movement that pushes the policy makers of today to make visionary decisions.

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Like many other insects, vinegar flies produce pheromones to call their conspecifics to an interesting food source. A research team has demonstrated in a new study that the flies' frass also contains these pheromones. Fruits that have been covered by the insects' fecal excretions seem to be especially attractive to other flies. These fruits are probably a more easily digestible food after many flies have been feeding on them. The new results are a first step toward understanding the importance of feces in the communication of vinegar flies.  
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A replica of a 2,000-year-old Roman arch that was destroyed by ISIS in Syria last year was unveiled in New York City today. The triumphal arch, a two-thirds scale of the original, was first showcased in Trafalgar Square in London this past April. Now, it will stay in City Hall Park for a week before being shipped to its next destination, Dubai.

The replica was made by the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) using 3D computer models based on photographs of the original arch; the photos were taken by archaeologists and tourists before the city of Palmyra, where the arch stood, was captured by ISIS in May 2015. Two robots in the city of Carrara, in Italy, then used the 3D modeling to re-create the finely carved arch out of Egyptian...

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What makes a house feel like a home? Is it friendly roommates, beer in the fridge, or a house plant that has a name? No, of course not. It's seasonal decor! That's why I've already picked up half a dozen pumpkin-scented candles, a pumpkin carving kit, and Halloween Oreos to outfit my new 700-square-foot apartment for the best time of the year.

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Refugees and the Birth of Empathy  
In April 2015, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu met in Dharamsala for a historic conversation about joy. The Book of Joy (on sale now) chronicles the week-long discussion. Learn more at bookofjoy.org and on social media with hashtag #sharethejoy

"Many of us have become refugees," the Dalai Lama tried to explain, "and there are a lot of difficulties in my own country. When I look only at that," he said, cupping his hands into a small circle, "then I worry." He widened his hands, breaking the circle open. "But when I look at the world, there are a lot of problems, even within the People's Republic of China. For example, the Hui Muslim community in China has a lot of problems and suffering. And then outside China, there are many more problems and more suffering. When we see these things, we realize that not only do we suffer, but so do many of our human brothers and sisters. So when we look at the same event from a wider perspective, we will reduce the worrying and our own suffering."

I was struck by the simplicity and profundity of what the Dalai Lama was saying. This was far from "don't worry, be happy," as the popular Bobby McFerrin song says. This was not a denial of pain and suffering, but a shift in perspective--from oneself and toward others, from anguish to compassion--seeing that others are suffering as well. The remarkable thing about what the Dalai Lama was describing is that as we recognize others' suffering and realize that we are not alone, our pain is lessened.

Often we hear about another's tragedy, and it makes us feel better about our own situation. This is quite different from what the Dalai Lama was doing. He was not contrasting his situation with others, but uniting his situation with others, enlarging his identity and seeing that he and the Tibetan people were not alone in their suffering. This recognition that we are all connected--whether Tibetan Buddhists or Hui Muslims--is the birth of empathy and compassion.

I wondered how the Dalai Lama's ability to shift his perspective might relate to the adage "Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." Was it truly possible to experience pain, whether the pain of an injury or an exile, without suffering? There is a Sutta, or teaching of the Buddha, called the Sallatha Sutta, that makes a similar distinction between our "feelings of pain" and "the suffering that comes as a result of our response" to the pain: "When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed, ordinary person sorrows, grieves, and laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical and mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him with another one, so that he feels the pain of two arrows." It seems that the Dalai Lama was suggesting that by shifting our perspective to a broader, more compassionate one, we can avoid the worry and suffering that is the second arrow.

"Then another thing," the Dalai Lama continued. "There are different aspects to any event. For example, we lost our own country and became refugees, but that same experience gave us new opportunities to see more things. For me personally, I had more opportunities to meet with different people, different spiritual practitioners, like you, and also scientists. This new opportunity arrived because I became a refugee. If I remained in the Potala in Lhasa, I would have stayed in what has often been described as a golden cage: the Lama, holy Dalai Lama." He was now sitting up stiffly as he once had to when he was the cloistered spiritual head of the Forbidden Kingdom.

"So, personally, I prefer the last five decades of refugee life. It's more useful, more opportunity to learn, to experience life. Therefore, if you look from one angle, you feel, oh how bad, how sad. But if you look from another angle at that same tragedy, that same event, you see that it gives me new opportunities. So, it's wonderful. That's the main reason that I'm not sad and morose. There's a Tibetan saying: 'Wherever you have friends that's your country, and wherever you receive love, that's your home.'"

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post to mark the occasion of two critical conferences at the UN on the Refugee and Migrant crisis: the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants (Sept. 19th, a UN conference) and the Leaders Summit on Refugees (Sept. 20th, hosted by U.S. Pres. Barack Obama, at the UN). To see all the posts in the series, visit here. To follow the conversation on Twitter, see #UN4RefugeesMigrants.

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