USGBC Signs Wingspread Principles on Climate Change (GreenBiz) WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2006 - The U.S. Green Building Council has signed the The Wingspread Principles on the U.S. Response to Global Climate Change , twelve concise statements that lay a foundation for positive change in the U.S. We're encouraging our members to sign as well, and lend their voices to the call for change. [News Source]

L. America / Caribbean ‘must act on climate change’ (SciDev.net) [RIO DE JANEIRO] A coalition of major UK environmental and development organisations has urged Latin American and Caribbean countries to reduce their vulnerability to climate change. [News Source]

Climate change a threat to development - World Bank (Stuff) CAPE TOWN: Climate change may be one of the biggest threats to attempts to cutting poverty in the world's most deprived nations and has forced the World Bank to reassess its development projects, the bank said today. [News Source]

Climate change a threat to development: World bank (RedNova) CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Climate change may be on [News Source]

Climate change a threat to development: World bank (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Climate change may be one of the biggest threats to slashing poverty in the world's poorest nations and has forced the World Bank to reassess its development projects, the bank said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Climate change a threat to development: World Bank (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Climate change may be one of the biggest threats to attempts to cutting poverty in the world's most deprived nations and has forced the World Bank to reassess its development projects, the bank said on Tuesday. [News Source]

L. America / Caribbean ‘must act on climate change’ (SciDev.net) [RIO DE JANEIRO] A coalition of major UK environmental and development organisations has urged Latin American and Caribbean countries to reduce their vulnerability to climate change. [News Source]

WA state’s glaciers are melting, and that has scientists concerned. Since the first stirrings of the Industrial Revolution 150 years ago, glaciers in the northern Cascades have shrunk by 40 percent, and the pace is accelerating. [News Source]

A new climate bomb ticking? Research on ocean sediments near Santa Barbara suggests that climate change could be accelerated by methane gas stored in oil deposits on the seafloor. [News Source]

Groups assess region’s climate change policies. The states and provinces of New England and eastern Canada are not on track to meet pollution reduction targets that were set five years ago. [News Source]

Tory plan links air quality with health. Protecting the health of children and the elderly will be a major selling point of the Conservative government's made-in-Canada environment plan. [News Source]