The report was produced by the United Nations Environment Program and is formally known as the Emissions Gap Report. At one point he called global warming a China-inspired hoax spread around the globe to arrest America’s economic progress. “We are sleepwalking toward a climate catastrophe and need to wake up,” says Alden Meyer, director of policy and strategy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. This is a programme of investment and regulation that, if adopted, would place the United States in front of the row of nations taking action to avoid global climate catastrophe. Among them is the way South Asians have treated the region’s resource base.

Source: The Express Tribune December 02, 2019 05:26 UTC