Climate change threats and opportunities

The United Nations yesterday announced that climate change poses an immediate threat to Cambodia. Among the U.N.’s main concerns are drought, flood and disease. Fortunately, it’s not all bad. Climate change also presents many great opportunities for enterprising U.N. consultants.

For example, it said, Cambodia can seek technical assistance and financial resources to promote climate change mitigation and adaptation, and mobilize private sector partnerships to transfer appropriate technologies to promote renewable energy in order to support the development of other sectors such as health, education, and transport.

It’s quite lucky for Cambodia’s poor people that such opportunities exist. Otherwise, who else could they rely on to overcharge them for pointing out the obvious?