{"id":10661,"date":"2009-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"uns-ban-urges-business-to-back-climate-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/uns-ban-urges-business-to-back-climate-policies.html","title":{"rendered":"U.N.&#8217;s Ban urges business to back climate policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Reuters Copenhagen &#8211; Business leaders met in <span class=\"yshortcuts\">Denmark<\/span> to try to unite behind a common call for long-term climate policies, ahead of a U.N. conference in December meant to forge a new climate treaty to replace the <span class=\"yshortcuts\">Kyoto Protocol<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;For those who are directly or implicitly lobbying against climate action I have a clear message: your ideas are out of date and you are running out of time,&quot; <span class=\"yshortcuts\">U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon<\/span> told a meeting of more than 500 business leaders.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;The smart money is on the green economy,&quot; he said. &quot;Leaders sometimes are weak because they are short-sighted to get the votes,&quot; he added, urging businesses to lobby for carbon cuts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/business\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090524\/bs_nm\/us_climate_business\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Copenhagen &#8211; Business leaders met in Denmark to try to unite behind a common call for long-term climate policies, ahead of a U.N. conference in December meant to forge a new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol. &quot;For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12158,12167,12163,12162,12160,12161,12168,4602,12159,12165,11091,4326,12166,6580,2295,12164],"class_list":["post-10661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-ban-ki-moon","tag-business-leaders","tag-climate-action","tag-climate-policies","tag-climate-treaty","tag-copenhagen-business","tag-denmark","tag-economy","tag-kyoto-protocol","tag-n-conference","tag-quot","tag-reuters","tag-running-out-of-time","tag-secretary-general","tag-smart-money","tag-term-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}