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Andy Atkins

Andy Atkins is Executive Director of the environmental organisation Friends of the Earth. Andy was previously policy and campaigns director at Tearfund, and was part of the original group of campaigners who started the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005.

Web: http://www.foe.org.uk
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    Climate change is biggest and most urgent challenge facing humanity.   Scientists say we need global emissions to peak within the decade and decline rapidly thereafter to have an earthly chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.

    The world we want will require much more enlightened green governance.

    When you think about it, without some measure of governance in any field, we get the law of the jungle – the powerful dominate, the weak get squeezed, bad things happen, and there is no redress.

    So what should good green governance mean?

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