By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, September 19 -- Climate change was a topic at the UN Monday, in the run-up to the General Debate proper. Inner City Press asked Christina Figueres, Executive Director of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, about US President Barack Obama having postponed ozone rules, and about the failure of poster-child subsidized gree business Solyndra.
Figueres called Solyndra an "unfortunate example of not an effective way of doing it." She did not address the allegations of crony capitalism, but rather said that a green economy can increase employment. Video here.
Why then did Obama cancel or postpone the ozone rules? Figueres did not directly comment on this either, saying that the US makes its "own decisions," then spoke about Montreal Protocol secretariat in Nairobi. How very UN.
Another example of crony capitalism, this time in UN Peacekeeping contracting, is around the UN this week:Suntech, a company regarding which many questions were left answered by the UN, click here for that. Watch this site.
