{"id":1756,"date":"2014-09-25T09:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2016-07-19T08:53:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:53:11","slug":"france-pledges-1-billion-for-green-climate-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/france-pledges-1-billion-for-green-climate-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"France pledges $1 billion for Green Climate Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>During the Climate Summit 2014 organized this Tuesday 23rd September, participants emphasised the importance of the Green Climate Fund. <\/strong>&#8211;<em>By Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1757\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/climat_0.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1757\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1757 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/climat_0.jpg\" alt=\"Ban Ki-Moon: \u201cwe must begin to capitalize the Green climate Fund.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu\" width=\"420\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/climat_0.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/climat_0-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ban Ki-Moon: \u201cwe must begin to capitalize the Green climate Fund.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe must meet the broader 100 billion dollar-a-year pledge made in Copenhagen\u201d, Ban Ki-Moon said in his opening remarks.<br \/>\nThe Secretary General of the UN indicates that climate change threatens hard-won peace, prosperity and opportunity for billions of people.<br \/>\nSo, he continues, all governments must work together to mobilise money and move markets: \u201cWe must begin to capitalize the Green Climate Fund. There is no more powerful way to drive the market transformation we need. All these actions demand collaboration, cooperation and coalitions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ban Ki-Moon\u2019s views are supported by Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, the President of France. \u201cAll the Governments must work hard to end up with a universal agreement to the new mode of the world development. France will grant one billion dollar for the Green Climate Fund to encourage the reforestation in countries\u201d, he points out.<br \/>\nDr Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission welcomes Hollande\u2019 s comments, as the demand of energy in Africa is increasing and people continue to cut trees to provide firewood. She would prefer to invest in renewable energy.<br \/>\nThe Climate Summit 2014 was held in New York and could be followed in teleconference all around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Climate Summit 2014 organized this Tuesday 23rd September, participants emphasised the importance of the Green Climate Fund. &#8211;By Diane Uwimana \u201cWe must meet the broader 100 billion dollar-a-year pledge made in Copenhagen\u201d, Ban Ki-Moon said in his opening remarks. The Secretary General of the UN indicates that climate change threatens hard-won peace, prosperity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[40,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}