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29.03.2011
Africa well placed to transition to green economy: UN
Africa is well poised to take advantage of a host of opportunities on the continent for building a ‘green economy,’ one that generates decent jobs in an environmentally sustainable way, a senior United Nations official said on Monday.
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28.03.2011
Ugandan Wins First UNEP Environment Award for Africa
Nairobi — Youth are the future of nations and leaders of tomorrow, or so the saying goes.But for one Ugandan woman, Patricia Okoed-Bukumunhe, this time-worn cliché took on a new meaning when she considered the environmental challenges her two young daughters, aged five and eight, would inherit due to the devastating effects of climate change.
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28.03.2011
First green trade mission heads to US
In tune with government efforts to boost British business abroad, six companies including a loft lagger and a zero-carbon beer-maker will accompany the Climate Change Minister, Greg Barker, to the US today on the UK's first green trade mission.
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25.03.2011
UPDATE 1-UN climate chief watchful of Japan nuclear mishap
(Reuters) - Climate change officials are watching to see if Japan's nuclear accident will prompt wealthy countries to scrap their own nuclear energy plans in favor of more traditional fuels that worsen global warming, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
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25.03.2011
UN climate chief urges governments to deliver on Cancun pledges
The UN's top climate change official has issued a timely call for governments to accelerate efforts to deliver on last year's Cancun Accords, ahead of the year's first official round of international climate negotiations in Bangkok next month.
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24.03.2011
Earth Hour aims for hope in darkened world
SYDNEY— Lights will go out around the world Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign, which this year will also mark Japan’s earthquake and tsunami.
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22.03.2011
Trading in carbon emissions to check global warming
AMRITSAR: An operation to replace incandescent lamp (ICL) or ordinary bulb with a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) in Chandigarh and Punjab would be undertaken in near future by CQC Green Ventures Private Limited. "Since one incandescent lamp (ICL) or an ordinary bulb consumes four times more energy than one compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) so we decided to replace ICL with CFL across the nation to save energy and generate CERs (certified emission reduction points) from UN's appointed designated operating entity to keep the industrial growth unaffected," said CQC director Rajeev Bakshi.
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22.03.2011
No 'offsets' says climate committee
The UK should meet targets to reduce greenhouse gases up to 2017 by action at home and not by buying "offsets", the Government's climate committee said today.
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