Tutu, Johansson urge rich nations to lead on climate change (SpaceDaily) LONDON, Dec 9 (AFP) Dec 09, 2008 Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu led a group of singers, writers, actors and campaigners in urging rich nations Tuesday to lead the way in tackling global warming to protect the world's poor. [News Source]

Climate inquiry won’t question global warming science (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News) A parliamentary committee inquiry into climate change policy will not relitigate the science that blames humans for global warming, according to new terms of reference. [News Source]

Climate talks stall on forests, emissions

Negotiators at a U.N. climate conference worked Monday to resolve differences over a deal to protect the world's forests and pressed industrial countries to drastically reduce their carbon emissions.

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Obama to meet with Gore to discuss climate change (EARTHtimes.org) Washington - President-elect Barack Obama will meet with former vice president Al Gore in Chicago on Wednesday to discuss global warming, Obama's transition office said in a statement. The two men, along with vice president-elect Joe Biden will disc... [News Source]

Disasters: Bangladesh, North Korea most hit in 2007. Bangladesh, North Korea and Nicaragua suffered most from natural disasters in 2007, according to a barometer published on Thursday at the UN climate talks in Poznan. [News Source]

Transition’s timing hits climate talks. Barack Obama's election raised hopes of rapidly ending the long impasse in international negotiations over climate change, but the timing of the presidential transition has severely dimmed those expectations as the current round of talks comes to a head in Poland. [News Source]

California dreaming: Selling green in Detroit and Poznan. The movers and shakers in the world of climate change may have come to Poland this week for the United Nations' annual climate jamboree, but their eyes are on America. [News Source]

Masdar plan. Abu Dhabi has embarked upon an ambitious plan--referred to as the Masdar Initiative--to build a zero-emission clean-tech centre in the desert. But will it work? [News Source]

Chilean glaciers retreating due to global warming. Chile's glaciers are on the retreat—a sign of global warming, and also a threat to fresh water reserves at the southern end of South America, a report has found. [News Source]

Murray “will never be the same again.” Parts of the River Murray's ecology will be lost or changed forever by the drought and global warming, the head of the new Murray Darling Basin Authority has conceded. [News Source]

Islanders plead at climate talks to be saved from rising seas. Island countries from Grenada to the Maldives are telling delegates at the United Nations climate-change talks this week that their lands may be swamped by rising seas and more powerful storms unless global warming is curbed. [News Source]