Friday, 12 October, 2012
Geneva bids for Green Climate Fund to put roots in the city
Geneva is already home to around 250 non-governmental organisations and very soon it could welcome another. The city is bidding to host the Green Climate Fund—created by the climate change talks in Copenhagen three years ago. It’s not alone though since other cities are in the frame but Geneva has the support of many already here—including Mikhail Gorbachev’s NGO Green Cross International. Its president is Alexander Likhotal and WRS’s Dave Goodman spoke to him about why Geneva should win and what the Fund will actually do:
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Dave posed some pertinent questions, but not enough. Geneva cannot cope already to house the number of people needed to support the various organizations, which has created a massive overspill into neighboring France. This Green Climate NGO would do well to look at the destruction of the ecosystem in the Pays de Gex with its massive increase in apartment building, over-populated towns, overcrowded roads, pollution, and the loss of nature as we delve more & more into its natural habitat. Not only that, has anyone ever considered the plight of the local people - teachers, bank employees & others? They cannot compete with the hike in costs created by allowing Swiss-franc earners to live in France. Has anyone ever compared the SMIC in France with minimum wage in Geneva? They should - it is so completely unjust. Sorry, could go on and on about this but don’t really know what to do.
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