Figueres, executive secretary of theUN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an investors' conference at theUnited Nations that their investment decisions should reflect the latestscientific evidence of dangerous climate change to protect the health andfinancial savings of ordinary citizens well into the future.

She said that the switch to greenerinvestments is essential to tackle climate change. “The continued and dangerousrise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is in large part the direct resultof past investments in energy and mobility systems based on the use of fossilfuels.”

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