Age: THIS week in Poznan, Poland, the world’s environment ministers are meeting to begin negotiations for a new treaty to reduce global warming. They are doing so in an unstable economic climate, with more countries moving into recession and unemployment rising. Traditionally, when times are tough, environmental issues take a back seat. In the words […]

Manilla Times: THE Philippines is vulnerable to the quadruple-whammy effects of global warming. These are rising sea levels, floods spawned by killer typhoons, dwindling water supplies induced by droughts and shriveling food supplies from parched farmlands. The melting of the Greenland ice caps could cause sea level to rise up to 7 meters, […]

ScienceDaily: Plants that range northward because of climate change may be better at defending themselves against local enemies than native plants. So concludes a team of scientists including a University of Florida geneticist. The team’s findings, reported online in the journal Nature, suggest that certain plants could become invasive if they spread to places […]

Independent: Global warming is for ever, some of the world’s top climate scientists have concluded. Their research shows that carbon dioxide emitted from today’s homes, cars and factories will continue to heat up the planet for hundreds of thousands of years. Their findings — which contradict a widespread belief that the atmosphere would recover […]

Agence France-Presse: Investing in "cheap and dirty" power because of the global recession will lead to another financial crisis, the UN climate chief warned Sunday on the eve of tough international talks in Poland. "My firm belief is that if as a result of that financial crisis, we make a next generation of bad […]

Express News Service: Aiming at reducing carbon emission, the Tata Power will make additional investments in the wind power sector to take its production capacity from the present 200MW to 500MW by 2011. "We will be making investments in wind power sector to take the production capacity to 500MW from the 200MW. We have […]

Boston Globe: Although Nancy Tauber wants to do her part to counter climate change as much as the next citizen, she admits that she and her husband, Tony, aren’t exactly the handiest people. So when the Cambridgeport couple heard about volunteers who weatherize houses to make them more energy efficient, the Taubers offered their […]

San Francisco Chronicle: Skeptics believed that the fiscal crisis would force Obama to put his plans to address global warming on the back burner. But in a videotaped speech to a climate summit co-hosted by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this month, Obama said, "Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all. […]

Xinhua: Delegates from over 190 nations are scheduled to meet here Monday, trying to reach consensus in order to seal an agreement at the Copenhagen meeting next year to replace the current Kyoto Protocol that is to expire in 2012. However, the contagious global financial crisis has made consensus a even more uphill task […]

Indo-Asian News Service: About 9,000 delegates from 187 countries are gathering here for the UN`s annual climate change summit, at a time when industrialised countries are reluctant to commit significant funds to combat climate change due to the global financial meltdown. But scientists warn the catastrophe is already here.The Dec 1-12 UN Framework Convention on […]

AAP: Creating a commercial-scale clean-energy industry in Australia will cost more than $5 billion annually over the next 10 years. That’s the finding of a Climate Institute report that has costed what it will take to move to a low carbon economy. The report says $5.4 billion a year until 2020 will be […]

Agence France-Presse: Aid specialists support a claim by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that efforts to adapt to climate change could create "millions of jobs" if enough funding is available. "There is huge potential," particularly in developing countries, according to Poonam Ahluwalia, president of Youth Employment Summit, a US-based group which specialises in the […]

Times (UK): BRITAIN’S roads would become green, clean and silent if the plans to be set out by the government’s Committee on Climate Change tomorrow were realised. It will warn that motorists must get rid of their dependence on the internal combustion engine and switch in large numbers to vehicles powered by electricity, hydrogen […]

Times (UK): It was a deal to make Alistair Darling hug himself with glee. Just as the world’s existing financial markets were hitting a five-year low two weeks ago, the Treasury raked in a cool £54m from a brand new one. The occasion was Britain’s first auction of CO2 permits. Almost 4m were knocked down […]

Deutsche Presse-Agenture: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are seeking a new push to combat global warming at a UN climate change conference due to start Monday, overshadowed by the world’s economic downturn and rising greenhouse-gas emissions in rich and emerging nations. The two-week UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, is meant to put governments […]