PMO rejects NDP offer of safe passage to EU summit.

The Prime Minister’s Office declined an offer from New Democratic Leader Jack Layton, who promised to keep one of his MPs from voting so that Harper could safely attend a Canada-EU summit where global warming will be discussed.

The United Nations and climate change. As the effects of climate change become more evident, the UN climate change body is playing an increasingly important role on the world stage. [News Source]

Climate conference convenes in Kenya. Facing rising temperatures and flagging efforts to control greenhouse gases, thousands of delegates from around the world open a U.N. conference Monday on next steps to ward off the worst effects of climate change. [News Source]

Climate conference convenes in Kenya. Facing rising temperatures and flagging efforts to control greenhouse gases, thousands of delegates from around the world opened a U.N. conference Monday on next steps to ward off the worst effects of climate change. [News Source]

Greening Ghana will ease climate change. The Chief Executive of the Ghana@50 Secretariat, Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, has asked Ghanaians to take the Greening Ghana Initiative as their contribution towards the fight against global warming. [News Source]

We’ll pay to beat climate crisis: voters. Almost two-thirds of Australians are prepared to pay more tax and more for essentials if it helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Herald/ACNielsen poll. [News Source]

‘Frightening’ study predicts hotter, drier Australia. Australia's climate is now permanently hotter and drier, and the country faces major temperature rises and significantly less rainfall by 2070, scientists said on Monday. [News Source]

Climate protest draws 20,000 people. More than 20,000 people rallied in London at the weekend, calling for urgent action on climate change ahead of today's UN conference on the issues in Nairobi. [News Source]

Nairobi talks to seek wider fight on warming. U.N. talks in Nairobi from Monday will seek to ease deep rifts over how to widen a fight against climate change beyond 2012. [News Source]

Climate change produces little shift in corporate attitudes. The issue of corporate responsibility has moved up the political agenda and was the subject of a high-level seminar hosted by Gordon Brown at No 11 Downing Street last week as the Guardian today reveals that FTSE 100 companies are spending less on the issue. [News Source]

Murdoch changes mind on climate. Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he has had a change of heart on climate change and now believes global action is needed — although not in the form of the Kyoto Protocol which the US opposes. [News Source]