Emissions pact stresses developing nations’ role. European and Asian leaders indicated that curbing global warming may depend more on clean-energy investments from the West than on extending emissions ceilings to developing nations. [News Source]

New Study Ties Global Warming To Stronger Hurricanes (KOMO)

Most of the increase in ocean temperature that feeds hurricanes is a result of global warming, says a study that one researcher says ‘closes the loop’ between climate change and powerful storms.

Biggest nuggets taken in global carbon rush. A business fix to save the planet, where rich world polluters pay the developing world to cut greenhouse gas emissions on their behalf, is drawing breath after hoovering up its biggest money-spinning deals. [News Source]

For German firms, new emission caps roil landscape. Germany's experience with Europe's new emissions constraints holds important lessons for countries that want to curb emissions of CO2. [News Source]

Global warming to wash away beaches, warns Spanish study. The fight for space on Spain's beaches looks set to grow fiercer over the next four decades as the sand starts to disappear under a rising sea that also threatens to flood beach-side homes. [News Source]

English wine sparkles as global climate warms up. The rise in average temperatures is making all the difference in the world to the English wine making industry, which is expected to expand by 50 per cent over the next year. [News Source]

Warming reshapes Alaska’s forest. While climate warming has been most obvious in Alaska's glaciers and pack ice, it's also threatening to reshape the ecosystem that covers most of America's largest state. [News Source]

Gore sparks Australian furore on environment. Former US vice president Al Gore on Monday found himself at the centre of an Australian political spat as he promoted his environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" Down Under. [News Source]

The heat is on. Previous changes in the world's climate have been set off by variations either in the angle of the Earth's rotation or in its distance from the sun. This time there is another factor involved: man-made “greenhouse gases”. [News Source]

EU, Asian summit to send global warming message. European and Asian leaders, eager to show that together they can produce results on the world stage, were set Monday to make a declaration about confronting global warming after the Kyoto Protocol on climate change runs out in 2012. [News Source]

EU could bury 30 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2050. The European Union could bury 30 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases by 2050 to help slow global warming, more than five times the bloc's current annual emissions. [News Source]