PM seeks out his ally from Australia.

As Canada struggled to summon support for the Afghanistan war and a widely panned climate change policy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper sought common cause here with his hard-line ally in Australia.

Stern welcomes Howard’s carbon taskforce. Nicholas Stern, the former World Bank chief economist, says he won't tell Australia what to do, but "I do think it would be good if all countries were involved in the Kyoto Protocol". [News Source]

If you can’t escape climate change, adapt to it. A conference on climate change, about to wrap up in Nairobi, has heard that adaptation to the effects of shifting weather patterns can play a key role in efforts to address climate change. [News Source]

Temperate zone forest fires can cool the climate. Fires may boost the reflectivity of the ground, thereby counteracting the warming from the fire's release of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

UN talks focus on adapting to climate change. As Kenya appealed to the international community for aid, the UN talks on Kyoto focused on how rich countries could help the poorest to adapt to events such as these, and other effects of global warming. [News Source]

Greens, activists for the poor unimpressed by outcome of UN climate talks. Environmentalists and activists for developing countries that are badly exposed to climate change said only small progress, at best, had been made at marathon UN talks on global warming that ended here on Friday. [News Source]

U.N. climate talks make progress on Kyoto overhaul. Ministers at U.N. climate talks agreed to a review in 2008 of the Kyoto Protocol and other steps that could pave the way to a wider long-term U.N. fight against global warming. [News Source]

Conference advances on gas emissions. The U.N. climate conference ended with agreement on next steps toward negotiating future cuts in global-warming gases. [News Source]

Climate conference takes modest step forward as world waits for U.S., China, others. The U.N. climate conference ended Friday with agreement on next steps toward negotiating future cuts in global-warming gases. [News Source]

Climate: Kyoto countries set 2008 for talks on further carbon cuts. The 168 members of the United Nations' pact for cutting greenhouse gases will launch negotiations in 2008 over the next round of pledges for tackling global warming, a worldwide conference on climate change decided here on Friday. [News Source]

Climate talks end with slow timetable. The U.N. climate conference ended Friday with agreement on the next steps toward negotiating future cuts in global warming gases. [News Source]