China expands markets for emissions trading. After years of small-scale experiments in using so-called emissions trading to reduce pollution, China is taking steps to set up a nationwide system. [News Source]

Utility executives fear new technology a gamble. Utility executives in the US on Monday warned of skyrocketing electricity prices if the country is forced to limit greenhouse gases and new technology to capture carbon emissions from coal does not pay off. [News Source]

AMA tells doctors to help lower Earth’s rising temperatures. Wading into the global-warming debate for the first time, the American Medical Association called Monday on doctors to push for policies to curb rising temperatures. [News Source]

Why car rescue is at risk of stalling. PM Rudd said the government plan to throw a $3.2 billion lifeline to the struggling car-making industry would underwrite Australian manufacturing and ensure the car makers built the "green" cars critical to tackling climate change. [News Source]

If a tree falls in the forest, are biofuels to blame? It’s not easy being green. Biofuels are under siege from critics who say they crowd out food production. Now these fuels made from grass and grain, long touted as green, are being criticized as bad for the planet. [News Source]

Carbon cost fears won’t dent EU climate plan: analysts. Cutting carbon costs for power plants and factories under European Union plans from 2013 will not harm the bloc's fight against climate change but could hold back energy market liberalization, say analysts. [News Source]

Gov’t wants to change course of forest experiments. The Energy Department's plan to discontinue experiments has upset some researchers who have spent years trying to understand how forests may help stave off global warming, and who want to keep the project going for at least a couple of more years. [News Source]

BA humbug - or the best way of doing good? Children are benefiting from British Airways' charity, but applause is muted. Green groups say that the best gesture BA can make to a developing country such as Tanzania is to accept restrictions, and heavier taxation, on flights. [News Source]

Tackling climate change. Private companies and individuals, government, and even the religious are coming together to sit down and tackle the issue of climate change and its impact on food and energy security in the Philippines. [News Source]

Green power needs reliable U.S. grid planning: NERC. As the United States attempts to lower carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation, it needs a national policy on climate change to help ensure reliable power delivery, said the U.S. watchdog for electric reliability. [News Source]

Sugar research the key to saving the reef. Queensland-based scientists are researching new and improved sugarcane varieties that require less fertiliser, thus reducing the nutrient run off into the ocean and impact on the natural environment such as The Great Barrier Reef. [News Source]