Q&A: The carbon trade. With climate change now an increasingly important concern for policy-makers, carbon trading is riding high on the agenda. [News Source]

Sweden goes for green as Nordics mull energy future. Twenty years after Sweden alerted the world to the meltdown at Chernobyl, it aims to phase out nuclear power and end dependency on fossil fuels, putting the country in the vanguard of green energy policy. [News Source]

Ancient and modern evidence suggests limits to future global warming. Instrumental readings offer ample evidence that carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere are warming Earth's climate, but the magnitude of change will likely fall well short of highest predictions. [News Source]

‘Engage the Americans,’ vintage Mulroney lectures. Former prime minister Brian Mulroney told an audience of past and present Conservatives that lecturing the Americans about their environmental record is not the way to solve global warming. [News Source]

Harper hints at possible Canada-US climate change pact. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, under pressure to tackle climate change while hostile to the Kyoto Protocol, hinted Thursday that Canada may opt for a Canada-US plan to reduce greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Britain urges global carbon trading to spur eco-healthy growth. Britain's finance minister Gordon Brown on Thursday made a strong pitch for a global carbon trading market as the best way to protect the endangered environment while spurring economic growth. [News Source]

Climate change surfaces on Bush-Hu agenda. In contrast with the US, which has drawn the universal ire of environmental groups for rejecting the Kyoto protocol on climate change, China is regarded favourably by some as making some positive moves on climate change. [News Source]

Spain widened gap with Kyoto goal in 2005. Spain's carbon dioxide emissions climbed again in 2005 meaning that the country, already the worst performer among rich nations, moved even further away from meeting its Kyoto goals. [News Source]

‘Act now’ on global warming. More than 70 per cent of Australians believe it is time to start addressing the consequences of global warming. [News Source]

Global warming: Powerful storms command attention. Global warming is finally getting the attention it deserves after a year of meteorological calamities and a record number of destructive hurricanes, environmentalists in Massachusetts said yesterday. [News Source]

Record levels of carbon dioxide. Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, have hit record highs and appear to be rising at an accelerating rate, a Boulder scientist said Thursday. [News Source]