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All countries should have a climate change ministry.
Current version: 22 Nov 2009 | 18:11 | booji
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Yes, because... A drop in the ocean!
Creating a ministry for climate change will mean that the government is giving more funds over to fighting climate change because it is individual ministers who fight their corner for the demartment when the finance department does their spending reviews. With a minister for the environment he will fight hard to get the money that is necessary to fight climate change because it is his job. Whereas if climate change is part of a bigger ministry such as energy the main priority for funding will be for energy - the minister would have fought in spending reviews on the basis of getting funding for energy infrastructure etc. The money for climate change within that department would then slowly be devoted to the main issue for the department rather than the issue of climate change.
A climate change ministry, to me, is ok but its just like a drop in the ocean. Because it is very possible that, for instance, all countries could create a ministry of climate change and yet the the problems would still remain. Also I am yet to be briefed properly what the role of such a ministry would be? What's the point of such a ministry when some countries like Saudi Arabia, China, and some European countries are not perturbed about climate change. I am so sure the ministry would be starved of necessary funds to articulate its mandate.
Just because there is a climate change ministry does not mean that the funding will flow. In these nations like Saudi Arabia having a seperate minister would not help secure funding, they would recive nothing except for bits and pieces so that that nation can show off what an amazing job it is doing in its fight against climate change. Probably some big project like a big field of solar panels - this would ofcourse be in the desert next to Saudi Arabia's famously wasteful agriculture![1] In essence the ministry would be a fig leaf.