UN 'stunned' by scale of bail-out. The UN's head of environment has been left "stunned" by the billions of dollars pumped into ailing companies following the global financial crisis.
Achim Steiner told the BBC One Planet programme that he had fought for years to secure much smaller sums to tackle poverty and climate change. "We waited perhaps a decade to get $5bn ($3.3bn) to accelerate development of renewable energy," he said. India - desenvolvimento da pobreza. Nigeria Ogoniland oil clean-up 'could take 30 years' 4 August 2011Last updated at 19:30 GMT The Ogoni people say their land has been devastated by pollution from the oil industry Nigeria's Ogoniland region could take 30 years to recover fully from the damage caused by years of oil spills, a long-awaited UN report says.
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