House floats draft of energy and climate change bill (CNET) Green technologies stand to get further support with the bill, particularly in renewable energy and efficiency, but global warming provisions face a tough political fight. [News Source]

FGCU professor appears in national global warming ads (The News-Press) A Florida Gulf Coast University professor has taken a stand against the theory of global warming in a newspaper advertisement that has appeared in... [News Source]

Forest audit puts focus on climate change. The Conservation Commission has raised the possibility of further bans on logging in WA native forests, which it says are under increased threat from climate change, declining rainfall, fires and dieback. [News Source]

Climate change combat mission: UN agency plants 3 bn trees. More than three billion trees have been planted worldwide under the United Nations programme to fight climate change through reforestation and the world body has set a new goal of seven billion plantations. [News Source]

Labor attacked on forest credits plan. Australian-backed proposals to reward companies that stop deforestation in poor countries will derail efforts to tackle climate change and trigger a collapse in the carbon permit price, according to a report by Greenpeace International. [News Source]

New plan in Europe to reduce planes’ CO2 emissions. Aviation groups in Europe announced a plan Tuesday to change the way commercial planes land in order to reduce their global-warming emissions of carbon dioxide. [News Source]

Scientists achieve breakthrough in global warming plant production. UK researchers have identified a single gene responsible for controlling plant growth responses to elevated temperature, a breakthrough that could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases. [News Source]

Obama backs incentive plan for auto trade-ins. US President Barack Obama Monday backed a plan to offer tax incentives to consumers trading in old cars for newer fuel-efficient models to boost the auto industry and help the environment. [News Source]

2010 Olympic Games officials eye global warming costs. Organizers of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games said on Monday they are confident they can find sponsors to help with the estimated C$4.5 million ($3.6 million) cost of keeping the event from adding to global warming. [News Source]

APS clients tie increases to efficiency. Several Arizona Public Service Co. customers said Monday they are OK with higher bills as long as the electric company is required to pursue more energy-efficiency programs. [News Source]

Tech sector should outpace EU climate goals: Reding. The European Union's technology sector should outpace the rest of the bloc on cutting climate-warming emissions, said Viviane Reding, EU commissioner in charge of information and communication technology. [News Source]