Is the GOP going green? Business is getting serious, and maybe more than a little, about environmental sustainability. [News Source]

Government accused of pitiful failure to meet target for greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists, environmental campaigners and opposition politicians yesterday issued a scathing response to the government's admission that it will fail to meet a key target to cut greenhouse gas pollution. [News Source]

Legal teams clean up on emissions trading. The development of emissions trading has become fertile ground not just for scientists and policy gnomes but also for corporate legal teams. [News Source]

Blow for Britain’s fight against climate change. Britain's credibility as a leader in the fight against climate change has suffered a massive blow with the Government being forced to announce it will not meet its flagship target for cutting the carbon dioxide emissions causing global warming. [News Source]

Blair demands green ‘revolution’. Tony Blair has called for a "technological revolution comparable to the internet" to slow global warming. [News Source]

Blair cools on green targets for successor to Kyoto. Tony Blair was accused last night of caving in to American pressure by proposing a watered-down replacement for the Kyoto Protocol that relies on new technology rather than binding greenhouse gas cuts as the solution to climate change. [News Source]

Britain set to miss its own greenhouse gas target. Britain said on Tuesday it would miss its own target to slash carbon dioxide emissions by about a fifth, damaging Tony Blair's bid to lead the war on climate change and attracting scorn from environmentalists. [News Source]

Blair wants urgent action on post-Kyoto accord. Prime Minister Tony Blair called on Wednesday for the world to work urgently on an agreement to tackle climate change after the Kyoto Protocol expires. [News Source]

States in US CO2 plan may aim at industrial plants. U.S. states breaking with the Bush administration in forming a regional plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions at power plants could next aim for cutting emissions at industrial plants, officials from the states said. [News Source]

Politicians will answer. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, told political leaders yesterday that they would face “a heavy responsibility before God” if they failed to act to control climate change. [News Source]

Pacific cyclones may increase and worsen. Global warming could lead to Pacific nations being battered by more frequent and extreme tropical cyclones. [News Source]