Green Times

A major climate change report for Australia’s government on Friday recommended the rapid introduction of an emissions trading scheme to curb greenhouse gases and warned that delay could be disastrous.”Without early and strong action, some time before 2020 we will realise we’ve indelibly surrendered to forces that have moved beyond our control,” said the report’s […]

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said here Tuesday that industrialized countries must take the lead in dealing with the threat of climate change. “Looking at global emissions from a per capita perspective, it is obvious that the richest countries must take the lead,” Annan told the first annual meeting of his new […]

The world’s major cities are also among the planet’s worst polluters but they have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading environmental consultancy said on Monday.To make the case more compelling, consultancy McKinsey said that most of the available solutions would save more than they cost so made economic sense […]

Legislation at the heart of the Government’s climate change strategy is being savagely criticised by big companies, who say it will cost the economy billions of dollars.Fonterra, Solid Energy and Todd Energy lined up at a select committee hearing yesterday to leave MPs in no doubt about their concerns over the Climate Change (Emissions Trade […]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the world’s biggest carbon polluters on Friday that global warming was becoming a driver of hunger, unrest and conflict, with the war in Darfur a concrete example.”Climate change is already having a considerable impact on security,” Sarkozy said in a speech to ministers from 16 economies that together account for […]