United Nations Environment Programme

National sovereignty vs. the New Green Order

IPN Opinion article

Author: Caroline Boin

The international environment bureaucracy proposed by EU governments would be bad news for people and the planet

UN to beef up green science base

IPN Opinion article

Julian Morris, director of the International Policy Network, told BBC News Online: "If the record of the IPCC is anything to go by, the proposed intergovernmental panel on environmental change would produce anything but sound science.

"Most likely, such a body would be driven by the kind of doom-mongering perspective that Unep has, without scientific justification, promoted.

"Unep has been wrong on practically everything on which it has made pronouncements, from desertification to climate change. We need sound science on environmental issues, but we need it to come from independent scientists, not from UNEP."

The Stockholm Convention: Who stands to gain?

IPN Opinion article

Author: Richard Tren

The great success of the global Green movement is in getting all \"right thinking people\" to buy into their ideas and philosophy. It would be hard to find anyone that would question the need to ban dangerous chemicals. And yet few people question the scientific legitimacy of the bans, and even fewer consider the unintended consequences on the health and economic wellbeing of those in the developing world.