Green Times

The head of the UN’s Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe.Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the bleak warning at a gathering of European Union ministers where he pleaded with the […]

Tackling climate change is too crucial to be derailed by a temporary economic downturn, the OECD head has said.In a wide-ranging interview for BBC News, Angel Gurria said that the long-term damage that would occur if the world did nothing about greenhouse gases would far outweigh the short-term problems of the credit crunch.
Nevertheless, the OECD […]

One of the world’s premier economic forums, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has openly identified environmental degradation as the greatest threat we face. While this is hardly news to those of us who’ve long been aware of the grave damage we’ve been inflicting on the planet in recent decades, for a mainstream […]

The United Nations on Wednesday supported India’s position on climate change and pulled up the United States for its failure to do enough to curb the green house gas (GHG) emissions.
“No, I don’t think that the US is doing enough on either front to curb emissions. In that manner, not a single industrialised country is […]