Report: 100 ways Va. should deal with global warming (Richmond Times-Dispatch) The state Commission on Climate Change, in its tenth and final meeting, adopted a report today on ways the state can deal with global warming. The report includes more than 100 recommendations, including calls to conserve energy better, rely more on nuclear power and increase protections for wild lands. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who appointed the 43-member commission a year ago, thanked the ... [News Source]

UN says poor nations need $130B for climate change (The State) The U.N. climate change organization has said the world's poor countries will need $130 billion dollars a year by 2030 to help them adapt to global warming and curb their carbon emissions. The U.N. says rich countries need to increase their payments over the next 20 years to six times the funds available now, which is about $21 billion. The figures were presented Thursday during a conference of ... [News Source]

From hoof to dinner table, a new bid to cut emissions. Farm animals around the world generate 18 percent of the emissions that are raising global temperatures. But unlike other industries, which are facing enormous pressure to get greener, large-scale farming is just beginning to come under scrutiny. [News Source]

Eco-friendly stimulus is planned. President-elect Barack Obama and leaders in Congress are fashioning a plan to pour billions of dollars into a jobs program to jolt the economy and lay the groundwork for a more energy-efficient one. [News Source]

New U.N. pact may be needed for climate victims. The world may need a new U.N. pact to compensate victims of climate change, or risk a tangle of billion-dollar lawsuits linked to heatwaves, droughts and rising seas, a study said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Scientist warns against overselling climate change. Climate change forecasters should admit that they cannot predict how global warming will affect individual countries, a leading physicist has said. [News Source]

Has climate change killed off Australia’s white possum? Australia's white possum could be the first creature to die out purely due to climate change. [News Source]

Possum loss blamed on climate change. Where is the white lemuroid possum? Scientists in far north Queensland suspect the missing creature may indicate the first mammal extinction caused by climate change. [News Source]

Climate change overwhelming disaster relief. Climate change is overwhelming the capacity of relief agencies to cope with people made sick or homeless by natural disasters, humanitarian groups warned here yesterday. [News Source]

UN: Climate change could cause refugee surge. Climate change could become the main driver of refugee movements, uprooting millions each year, a UN official said Wednesday as the United Nations and Red Cross urged a stronger global effort to help people face the fallout from global warming. [News Source]

Climate change threatens food security. Ocean warming, frequent tropical cyclones, flash floods and droughts are likely to have a devastating impact on food production systems in Pacific island countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned this week. [News Source]