Forum to discuss funding for green economy

NAIROBI: Ways to cut emission and the necessary funds required to convert brown economy to green, will be the top agenda of a high level meeting of environment ministers of world to be convened in Monaco next week.

The three-day long event 'Mobilizing Finance for the Climate Challenge', the biggest gathering of environment ministers since the climate change breakthrough in Bali, will begin from February 20.

More than 100 ministers from across the globe are scheduled to attend the meet along with senior figures from industry and economics; science; local government; civil society, trades unions and intergovernmental bodies, a statement from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said yesterday.

The list include Tulsi Tanti, Managing Director of Indian wind energy company Suzlon; Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and Juan Somovia, the Director-General of the International Labour Organisation.

They will be joined by V Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, an expert on the emerging challenge of `global dimming'.

The delegates will also attend the 10th Special session of the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum.