Greenpeace: Forests don’t belong in carbon market. Environmental group Greenpeace on Monday criticized plans by some countries to tackle global warming by letting polluting industries in wealthy nations offset carbon emissions by replanting tropical forests. [News Source]

Danish twist on Adirondacks, climate change. A Danish pension company committed to fighting climate change recently bought 92,000 acres in the Adirondack's for $32.9 million from The Nature Conservancy. ATP is a member of Carbon Disclosure Project, which encourages business to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Climate change as a generator of employment in the Caribbean. The Caribbean region should transform the climate change threat into creating job opportunities in renewable energy, clean technologies, and environmental goods and services, CARICOM's director of sustainable development said. [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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]