Turkey can’t be signatory to Kyoto Protocol before EU membership, says Pepe. Environment and Forestry Minister Osman Pepe said on Wednesday that Turkey's First Climate Change National Report aimed to plan the route to meet the Kytot Protocol's requirements. [News Source]

Opposition parties vow to ‘clean the Clean Air Act’.

The three opposition parties are vowing to turn the Canadian government’s Clean Air Act into a vehicle for complying with the Kyoto Protocol.

US reaffirms Asian environment ties, rejects “arbitrary” targets.

The United States on Tuesday reaffirmed its partnership with Asian giants China and India to cut greenhouse gases, saying it opposed global environment initiatives with “arbitrary” targets.

Climate warning resonates in Switzerland. Economists and climatologists in Switzerland hope a hard-hitting report on the threat of climate change will lead to renewed action on global warming. [News Source]

Kiwis see costs of global warming - Parker (Stuff) Climate Change Minister David Parker believes the "scary" consequences of global warming are finally dawning on New Zealanders. [News Source]

Asia’s vital challenge: Water management. Asia has less fresh water - 138,000 cubic feet, per person - than any other continent outside of Antarctica. [News Source]

Europe looks to lead on ecological issues. Even as the US and Australia have refused to participate in the UN climate control treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, Europe is increasingly offering itself as the drawing board on which new attempts to improve the environment are tested. [News Source]

Decision time for America. The country's stance on issues ranging from stem cells to climate change could be about to shift, as the nation gears up for its midterm elections. [News Source]

State’s shrinking glaciers: going … going … gone? While glaciers have ebbed and flowed through the region for millennia -- the land where Seattle now stands was once beneath more than half a mile of ice -- scientists say global warming is at least partly to blame this time. [News Source]

Canada faces lawsuit over failure to meet Kyoto commitment. Environmentalists threatened Tuesday to sue Canada to force cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions agreed under the Kyoto Protocol, despite officials' claims the target cannot be achieved. [News Source]

U.S. coal state pursues alternative energy. Gilberton company WMPI Pty. LLC plans to start producing diesel for the state of Pennsylvania and other clients within three years, one of a range of alternative fuel programs to displace some of the coal on which Pennsylvanians are dependent. [News Source]