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Not time to change course on threat of climate change, says UNEP chief

Xinhua, March 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

This is not the time to change course on the very serious and very real threat of climate change, Executive Director of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Erik Solheim said in an email interview with Xinhua on Tuesday.

"The science tells us that we need bolder, more ambitious action," said Solheim.

The UNEP chief noted that if we want reliable and clean energy, sustainable economic growth and more and better jobs, then a low-carbon future powered by renewables is the answer.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at reversing his predecessor Barack Obama's climate policies.

The order also sought to overturn limits on coal leasing on public lands, methane emissions from oil and gas production, and requirements to include climate change as part of environmental assessments, as well as reexamine the social cost of greenhouse gasses. Endite