Environmental stories tagged with: united nations

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has launched a new construction project with Sony Pictures Entertainment that they hope will benefit California's economy and environment.

In 1989 the Montreal Protocol banned CFCs which was damaging the ozone layer; it has since been discovered that the CFC replacement is producing emissions 10,000 times more potent, as a greenhouse gas, than carbon dioxide.

A round of climate change talks under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded in Austria on Friday with agreement on key elements for an effective international response to climate change.

Climate change is likely to undermine food production in the developing world, while industrialised countries could gain in production potential, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said on Tuesday in a speech at the M.S. Swaminathan Foundation Conference in Chennai, India.