Enel sees profits, cost cuts from CO2 offsets. Italy's biggest utility Enel will make considerable profits and cut costs under emissions trading schemes in Europe and the Kyoto Protocol, even while it boosts its coal plant fleet, its head of carbon strategy told Reuters. [News Source]

A small step for commuters, a giant leap for saving the planet. If all Sydney's car commuters stopped their vehicles two kilometres away from work today, got out and walked the rest of the way, the city would be spared 1200 tonnes of carbon emissions. [News Source]

UK urged to fund climate project. The UK government has been urged to fund the next stage of a major European programme to monitor the effects of global climate change from space. [News Source]

NJ to designate firm to build offshore wind farm. New Jersey officials plan to announce Friday the winning proposal to build one of the nation's first offshore wind farms. [News Source]

Carbon dioxide output startles climate researchers. The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man-made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists' projected worst-case scenario, international researchers say. [News Source]

Climate change plan is wonky. Alberta's highly touted climate change plan is based on unsupported projections and may end up wasting taxpayers' money, auditor general Fred Dunn reported yesterday. [News Source]

Steelmakers urge EU to improve emissions proposal. Two major European steel industry bodies urged the EU on Thursday to improve its proposal on revising the bloc's emissions trading system, saying it could damage the European industry's competitiveness. [News Source]

Australia releases economic base to carbon scheme. Australia's government on Friday released key economic data it will use to design an emissions scheme to combat global warming, predicting economic growth of 2.3 percent in the regime's key mid-term years around 2020. [News Source]

Why Canada’s Green Party is (finally) a prime-time draw. Canada’s Green Party leader Elizabeth May will make history this week. The mother, lawyer, and environmental activist will be the first Green Party member to participate in national televised debates on equal footing with Canada’s mainstream party leaders. [News Source]

Heat’s on Kramp at debate. The Conservative government, and its local candidate Daryl Kramp, faced tough criticism as candidates squared off in a debate focused solely on environmental issues. [News Source]

Doomed to leave the same carbon footprints? The question, according to Terry Tamminen, Gov. Schwarzenegger's environmental adviser, is whether we are on the path of sustainability, like the Hopi, or of destruction, like the Easter Islanders. [News Source]