Ministers to discuss financing transition from brown to green global economy

More than 100 ministers from across the globe are scheduled to attend the Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF) - the world's forum for environment ministers -alongside 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 Tuesday.
These 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.
Other key figures include Gunter Pauli, entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives and an expert on nature's solutions to environmental challenges; James Cameron, founder of Climate Change Capital ? an investment banking group specializing in financing a low-carbon economy; and Fernando Ibanez, Chief Executive Officer of Saguapac, one of the world?s most successful and largest water cooperatives.
They will be joined by V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, an expert on the emerging challenge of `global dimming'.
Professor Ramanathan is leader of ...