[20 years after warning us of imminent CO2-induced apocalypse, the UN claims it may start developing a plan to reduce its own emissions]
"This year, for the first time, the UN will be publishing the carbon emissions of all its agencies. That's across 50 agencies and 513 buildings around the world plus all the flying that gets done. Next year the agencies will have to develop an emissions reduction plan; my team does the reductions bit.UN's 1989 warning
"It's critical that the UN is seen to be practising what it preaches, so we ensure we get the greenest new buildings and that we use energy efficiently in both hot and cold climates. But you have to reconcile the need to be carbon-efficient without affecting the effectiveness of the organisation. You can't ask people to sit in a freezing office.
According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
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