To the outrage of enviromentalists, industrialised nations and oil states at the World Summit on Sustainable Development worked today to water down a timetable for rapidly expanding the use of clean, renewable energy technologies around the globe.

Delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development today called for new agricultural technologies to be made available to poor farmers in the developing world.

WITH a call for an end to the “global apartheid” between rich and poor ringing in their ears, delegates to the Earth Summit in Johannesburg began talks yesterday aimed at relieving poverty and healing the planet.

South African President Thabo Mbeki has welcomed delegates to the World Summit on Sustainable Development with a call to action to band together to save the global environment and combat poverty.

Business leaders in Britain are not taking steps to reduce the impact of their activities on the environment, according to new research.

A THREE-KILOMETRE deep blanket of sooty pollution stretching across southern Asia threatens to inflict untold economic damage to the region and put hundreds of thousands of people at risk, scientists said yesterday.

The Green Party has slammed the Government’s waste management plans outlined by Environment Minister Martin Cullen earlier today.

European environment ministers have condemned America’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol and its policies on greenhouse gas emissions, calling it a political move to preserve the energy-burning US lifestyle that has nothing to do with economics.