While there remains no shortage of delusionary minds that the notion of climate change is no more than a ruse to staunch the flow of wealth to the world’s petro addicts, the leaders of some of the world’s foremost international organizations, some of whom had long been sitting on a proverbial fence on the issue of what is now seen as a climate crisis, would appear to have shifted in their chairs. Indeed, there might even be a case for claiming these high profile international organizations are beginning to throw up a new ‘breed’ of ‘high profile leaders’ who have been courageous to call a spade a spade.
Serving Executive-Secretary of the United Nations Framework Con-vention on Climate, Simon Stiel, has been one of the most recent high profile international civil servants to ‘call time’ on the pulling of punches, unambiguously declaring if we are going to be successful from the perils of climate change, we have a mere two years in which to begin to move resolutely in that direction.