Some investors eye companies’ ‘carbon footprints’ as risk factors Stock investors already are worried about interest rates, oil prices and credit crunches. Now environmentalists, state officials and others say shareholders should pay close attention to another risk: a company's "carbon footprint." [News Source]

Rich must reduce emissions for poor to develop Rich countries like the United States must reduce their carbon footprint to support poor nations who have no choice but to increase their emissions if they are to lift themselves out of poverty, a leading environmentalist said. [News Source]

Long march toward climate change Mohamed Adow has seen the effects of climate change at first hand where he lives in northern Kenya. Now Adow and more than a dozen other activists are working to spread the message that the world's poor are bearing the brunt of climate change. [News Source]

Pollution keeps rising despite wish to make cuts After years of telling pollsters we demand drastic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Canadians have voted with their furnaces, factories and SUVs to keep real-life emissions at a record high in 2005. [News Source]

Bush goes on the climate attack President George W. Bush went on the offensive on climate change on Friday, proposing a summit among major emitters of greenhouse gases that would set a long-term global goal for curbing this dangerous pollution. [News Source]

Nuclear industry pushes for early approval of new plants by warning of bottlenecks The government's plans to build up to 10 nuclear power plants in Britain over the next decade could be thwarted by a shortage of skilled project managers, industry executives have warned. [News Source]

Let’s Chill About Global Warming (Time Magazine) Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg sat down with TIME to discuss his new book, Cool It: the Skeptical Environmentalist's guide to Global Warming [News Source]

Americans Consider Global Warming An Urgent Threat, According To Poll (Science Daily) A growing number of Americans consider global warming an important threat that calls for drastic action, and 40 percent say that a presidential candidate's position on the issue will strongly influence how they vote, according to a national survey. [News Source]

Tourism set to suffer from the climate change it generates: UN (AFP via Yahoo! News) A booming worldwide tourism industry could prove its own worst enemy by contributing to the global warming that threatens some of the planet's most prized destinations, UN agencies warned Monday. [News Source]

Americans consider global warming an urgent threat, according to poll (Environmental News Network) A growing number of Americans consider global warming an important threat that calls for drastic action, and 40% say that a presidential candidate’s position on the issue will strongly influence how they vote, according to a national survey conducted by Yale University, Gallup and the ClearVision Institute. [News Source]

Climate change top issue, CEOs declare (The Globe and Mail) OTTAWA -- Canada's top chief executive officers have reached an "unprecedented consensus" on the need to combat global warming and their obligation to do more to help. [News Source]