Monica Howe, 31, is the sharp end of the grassroots debate in Los Angeles, the global car culture's smog- choked, road-raged, increasingly grid locked spiritual home. You don't see the power of love, you don't see the power of the spirit, and as long as that goes on, the environment is going to be degraded and women are going to be in very difficult circumstances," she says. Almost one-third of London emissions come from City airport and Heathrow, and there are plans for both to nearly double in size.

Kanishka’s large, stylish restaurant is an easy choice if you’re looking to impress some dinner guests - the turquoise colour palette and contemporary design is suitably glamorous for a special occasion. China is trying to use ecological efficiency to detach resource use from economic growth, the traditional development path. Procedures likely to be introduced will include gadgets that ensure you can't leave a running tap, baths that hold less water, gutters that collect water, systems for using waste water for gardens. Anyone generating electricity from renewables now gets a guaranteed payment of up to three to four times the market rate, guaranteed for 20 years. With above-normal rainfall expected to persist until the end of 2023, this will exacerbate the already grave humanitarian situation, whereby 4.In this list, you’ll find glamorous riverside spaces with views of the water while you dine, an Instagram-worthy, jungle-inspired restaurant filled with foliage and greenery, as well as a stunning ballroom-style space located on Level 34 of The Shard.

At 2am at the 2002 Earth Summit , he made one of the most impassioned speeches heard at a global meeting. But many oil and power companies, as well as the UK, US and Australian governments, are now plunging billions of dollars into the technology which they hope will provide them with a carbon "get out of jail" card within 10 years. The following year, the village joined in to rebuild a second dam, and by 1996 Gopalpurans had recreated nine johads that between them held millions of litres of water. NGO World Vision said the current floods have destroyed homes, schools and roads, leaving children without basic needs such as shelter, food and drinking water.Like many others in developing countries, she has been beaten up, arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against environmental destruction, government oppression and abuse of human rights. Companies with links to government are devastating vast areas of Indonesia and southeast Asia to grow palm oil to supply Europe's cars and kitchens with biofuel and cooking oils, and Saragih is one of the few people standing in their path. It's oppressive, horrifying and poetic, and is widely seen as both a parable and the logical extension of the earth's physical degeneration. In the next 30 years, water "harvesting" is expected to become an essential way to save water everywhere from England to Uganda and Arizona.

One of London’s most impressive venues, Grade-I listed 10-11 Carlton House Terrace was once home to Prime Minister William Gladstone. You can hire the whole space out for up to 120 seated guests, or for smaller events there’s always the basement private dining room which seats 48 and is completely soundproof, boasting an LCD projector and screen. Plus, with Atul Kochhar at the helm, you couldn’t be in better hands with the food either, and Kanishka’s modern Indian menu has something for everyone. Since then his lead has been followed by thousands of other companies, yet BT has managed to stay one step ahead.Its plants are engineered to require less nitrogen fertiliser, so lowering emissions of nitrous oxide - a greenhouse gas some 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Now the revolution he helped shape is coming, and Lovins says the US can eliminate all oil use by 2050, "and know unprecedented prosperity". There is no agreement on what emission cuts need to be made by when or by whom, and the US is still deeply reluctant to do anything.

Texas Motor Speedway claims to be able to hold 180,000 people, but that includes the skybox seats high above too. Yet it is the strict dictionary definition of the word that suits him best: a person of independent or unorthodox views. He may look increasingly out of step, but Lomborg is one of the few academics prepared to challenge the consensus with credible data. The faster industrialised countries cut their emissions, the more willing other countries will be to do their bit," Merkel says.But what I've made work really well is massively parallel processes [a system of linked computers tackling problems on a super scale]. Floor-to-ceiling windows and a highrise view over London make Shangri-La The Shard an intriguing prospect for an event. This is the best-known cinematic critique of the ecological destruction in China, but many other artists and film-makers are now addressing the problems of the country's breakneck race for economic growth. There was even a lengthy exchange about hybrid cars, long before they became the car du jour of Hollywood stars. The long years of single-minded lobbying mean that Meyer's idea now has some powerful backers, including, in Britain, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution; 180 MPs have supported it in an early day motion, and the government, equivocal so far, is moving towards a version of it.