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 […]

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 […]

Vast stretches of coastal India may just go under water if global warming goes unchecked.According to a report titled Blue Alert by Greenpeace, if present trends are any indication, there will be a five-degree increase in temperature over the next hundred years.
This will submerge large areas and displace around fifty million people in India alone. […]