Green Times

UN climate chief Yvo de Boer called on industrialised countries on Thursday to start showing some of their cards in a slow-paced poker game whose prize is a new pact to tackle global warming.De Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said talks unfolding among senior officials here marked “the […]

Exerts say that climate change was a global issue and its link with sustainable development and security (food, water, energy, social) was crucial. The climate problem could not be resolved through environment policy, but has to be integrated with development, said Dr Adil Najam, a renowned scholar and a distinguished professor at the Boston University, […]

Artist Sudarshan Patnaik Wednesday showcased miniatures of Indian heritages along the country’s coastline to highlight the dangers of global warming. The sculptures were showcased in the beach town of Puri in Orissa. Patnaik created the miniatures of the Jagannath temple at Puri, the shore temple at Mammallapuram in Tamil Nadu, and the Gateway of India […]

Rising sea levels and surges from intensifying storms pose a growing threat to the nation’s roads, railways, harbors and airports, according to a new report from the National Research Council. The federally funded study calls on government and industry planners to start factoring climate change into transportation system design.One hundred thousand kilometers of U.S. coastal […]

Climate change poses serious security risks for the European Union, ranging from sharper competition for global energy resources to the arrival of numerous “environmental migrants”, warns a report prepared for an EU summit this week.
“The core challenge is that climate change threatens to overburden states and regions which are already fragile and conflict-prone,” says the […]

Middle East towns and cities could be hit by rising sea levels through global warming, displacing millions of people, claims the British University of Dubai in its new research on climate change.The study analyses the impact of global warming on the Arabian Gulf over the coming years. It is predicted that temperatures will rise between […]