Africa: Global Investors Must Play Full Role in Shifting World to Clean Energy, Says UN Chief

27 January 2016

More than 500 global investors gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York today to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to move the world onto the path of clean energy, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon challenging them to, at a minimum, double clean energy investments to $660 billion by 2020.

"Markets now have the clear signal they need to unleash the full force of human ingenuity and scale up investments that can generate low-emissions resilient growth," he said , speaking just days after scientists confirmed that 2015 was the hottest year on record.

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