{"id":11301,"date":"2015-10-09T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=11301"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:03:59","slug":"un-official-calls-on-finance-ministers-to-create-climate-friendly-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2015\/10\/un-official-calls-on-finance-ministers-to-create-climate-friendly-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"UN official calls on finance ministers to create &#8216;climate-friendly&#8217; policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/climatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151009-JP-Lima-Remarks-at-Ministerial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Janos Pasztor urged<\/a> global\u00a0finance ministers meeting in Lima on Friday\u00a0to &#8220;ensure that climate-friendly policies are adopted, replicated \u2013 and enforced \u2013 throughout the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/climatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SG-TRENDS-PRIVATE-SECTOR-CLIMATE-FINANCE-AW-HI-RES-WEB1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">climate finance report<\/a> released this week by\u00a0the Secretary-General\u2019s Climate Change Support Team finds that the private sector is emerging\u00a0as a key partner in the effort\u00a0to\u00a0create\u00a0a low-carbon, climate resilient future. However, Pasztor said that increased\u00a0collaboration with government will accelerate change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A major shift in the practices of the global financial community, coupled with strong government enabling policies will be needed to ensure continued progress,&#8221; Pasztor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change Janos Pasztor urged global finance ministers meeting in Lima on Friday to &#8220;ensure that climate-friendly policies are adopted, replicated \u2013 and enforced \u2013 throughout the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":11309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[685,144,1141,682],"class_list":["post-11301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-news","tag-assistant-secretary-general-on-climate-change","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-finance","tag-janos-pasztor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}