Davos Plead: Don't Let Financial Crisis Overshadow Climate Change and Needs of World's Poor. By Bradley S. Klapper and Colleen Barry, AP, January 30, 2009. "Political and corporate leaders at the World Economic Forum heard fervent appeals Friday not to forget the bottom billion, the poorest of the world's poor, in the rush to rescue the global financial systems. 'To be sure the economic crisis reduces our resources,' U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon told a news conference. 'It threatens to deflect attention from other global problems: climate change, issues of water and the environment and economic development.' Repairing the world's shattered financial system with taxpayer-funded bailouts should not be allowed to derail those efforts, he said."
2009-02-01
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