NEWSFLASH! Action on climate change voted bottom of world's priority heap

EXCERPTS: Back in March of this year, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced an “innovative initiative” in which participants from around the world are invited to vote on what the priorities should be in a post-2015 world.

When I first stumbled across the “For information media • not an official record” of a March 13 Press Conference (and standard photo-op and exhortation from Ban Ki-Moon), I was concerned that this might have been another opportunity missed. Here are some excerpts from the Press Conference (note the use of past tense … all emphases mine -hro):

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ‘MY WORLD’ INITIATIVE FOR POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

People from around the world had an opportunity to join the global conversation to shape the future development agenda by participating in an innovative initiative known as MY World, Olav Kjørven, Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Bureau for Development Policy at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said today at a Headquarters press conference.

“There’s been something really important missing in the way we at the United Nations and at the global level have been deliberating and deciding on issues over the last decade, and that something has been you — people all over the world,” he told correspondents, adding that the era of making decisions about global issues behind closed doors with little citizen involvement was coming to an end.

Whoah! No more decisions about “global issues” being made behind closed doors?! Has anyone sent this memo to the powers that be at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?! But I digress … this non-official record continues: READ MORE->