Although a large Chinese middle class offers significant benefits for the world economy, it will also pose serious challenges to the environment and global warming.
Some of the world's wealthiest are going green, spending their own greenbacks to protect the environment and fight global warming.
In other words, there should be a net benefit to the global environment and slow the course of global warming.
Global warming and human impact on the environment are not scientific fact but social phenomena that quite visibly exhibit beliefs and behaviors that are as old as humanity.
That is because cars produce local air pollution, which damages human health and the environment, and also produce greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming.
Besides supporting scientific research, Tara Oceans and UNESCO-IOC will work together to promote ocean education and public awareness on the crucial role our ocean play in global warming and to encourage sustainable management of the environment.
In this audio section, BBC World Service environment specialist Richard Black explains the so-called greenhouse effect, global warming, the implications for the human race and the significance of the Kyoto summit.
Global warming is the greatest long-term threat to our planet's environment.
The Environment: Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views on global warming will change accordingly.
That satisfied global-warming sceptics in the ruling party but failed to address rising public concern over the environment and climate change.
Environment ministers are in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, in an effort to overcome serious differences over tackling global warming.
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