climate

Shire ranked No.1 in Newsweek’s green cos list

Irish-based biopharmaceutical company Shire has been ranked no. 1 in Newsweek’s top green companies list in the world. While Shire procured Newsweek green score of...

UN welcomes India-US commitment to climate deal

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the commitment of India and the United States to Paris Agreement on Climate Change and their mission...

Environment Day: Weak laws, poor security forces trigger environmental crimes

The value of environmental crime is 26 percent larger than previous estimates, says a rapid response report published by the United Nations Environment Programme...

China to boost green, low-carbon development

China will constantly boost green and low-carbon development in an effort to promote harmony between human and nature, according to a congratulatory letter sent...

80% city dwellers breathe polluted air: WHO

Over 80 percent of world's city dwellers breathe polluted air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a World Health Organisation...

UN appoints new climate chief

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Patricia Espinosa Cantellano of Mexico as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The appointment...

Johnson Controls, Covestro join EP100; pledge energy productivity

The Climate Group launched a new global program on energy productivity - EP100, an action of the We Mean Business coalition - at the Energy Efficiency Global Forum (EE Global)...

Are worst doubts about future of climate change coming true?

Rewinding fast backward reveals that when the Kyoto Protocol was opened for signature 18 years ago, on March 16, 1998, only six countries signed...