We’re living in a time of ‘savage capitalism’ and not only can the small retailers, with their rates and rents not keep up, but neither can we, the boys and girls, insects and animals, men and women, who must inhabit this earth for as long as she will have us, writes Joyce Fegan

TACKLING climate change, and not the global economic crisis, is the greatest challenge facing humanity, international experts will tell a major conference in Cork next month.

China is concerned about global warming but lacks the money and technology to significantly reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions that are worsening the problem, a top government scientist said today.

Shell has been named as the most "environmentally responsible" company in an environmental monitoring group's survey.