He said that, in addition to scrapping fossil fuel subsidies and introducing a carbon tax, the World Bank's plan involved spending more on energy efficiency, measures to make agriculture greener and changes to help cities become less polluted and more liveable.
Marion's team is also helping to promote greener car travel by offering fuel-efficiency training and has linked up with the Energy Saving Trust to give subsidised lessons to drivers.
This means using greener materials and constantly inventing new ways to conserve precious resources".
He points out success across the Channel is far from guaranteed – "The grass looks greener in the Top 14 but very often it isn't" – because training regimes are haphazard at certain clubs and restrictions on the number of non-homegrown étrangers have also increased.
Spring onions and chives each contribute their own sharper, greener onion flavour, which, though not traditional, I rather like, though I suspect such additions would be frowned upon up in Poulton-le-Fylde.
Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones said: "This will not only help create greener and more efficient sources of energy, but will also create jobs and vital opportunities for growth in north Wales".
I ponder how the grass is always greener.
And so it goes, ever more NHS doctors seek greener pastures, and in the fertile space opened up by their departure, the demand for locum doctors blossoms.
Sadly, the government's proposed investments in greener technology are puny, and the 100,000 jobs promised recently are nowhere near enough.
Greens take for granted that the big parties are greener now: David Cameron supports micro-electricity generation, Nick Clegg opposes a third Heathrow runway and Labour has serious CO2 targets, though not credible policies to deliver them.
An "obsession" with fracking is blinding the government to greener sources of energy, according to proponents who claim the economy will miss out on up to £3bn a year and tens of thousands of jobs by failing to exploit organic biogas.
