Climate change meet set to begin work on pact (AFP via Yahoo! News) Gruelling efforts to craft a pact on climate change enter a crucial phase on Monday when a 192-nation UN forum takes its first look at a draft text for negotiations. [News Source]

The great carbon credit con: the ‘eco’ companies causing pollution. In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded UN ‘green reward points’, which are traded hungrily on the financial markets at huge profit? [News Source]

Why six Britons went to eco war. When six activists protesting against climate pollution scaled a tower at a coal-fired power station in 2007, the resulting court case drew support from the world's leading scientists. Their subsequent acquittal proved historic and changed government policy. [News Source]

How Obama made his energy platform ‘pop.’ Four months into his presidency, Obama has elevated energy and climate issues to near the top of his agenda; he's made them pop by packaging them as ways to create "green" jobs and reduce U.S. dependence on imports of foreign oil. [News Source]

The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment? In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded UN ‘green reward points’, which are traded hungrily on the financial markets at huge profit? [News Source]

Why six Britons went to eco war. When six activists protesting against climate pollution scaled a tower at a coal-fired power station in 2007, the resulting court case drew support from the world's leading scientists. Their subsequent acquittal proved historic and changed government policy. [News Source]

How Obama made his energy platform ‘pop.’ Four months into his presidency, Obama has elevated energy and climate issues to near the top of his agenda; he's made them pop by packaging them as ways to create "green" jobs and reduce U.S. dependence on imports of foreign oil. [News Source]

Gravest challenge of the 21st century may be disease. With natural disasters and climate change may come an even more insidious menace, one that could silently sneak up on a population and has the potential to kill thousands, even millions of people in a single strike: disease. [News Source]

For climate change bill, hard part starts now. Environmentalists celebrated earlier this month when a key House committee approved a contentious proposal to combat climate change. But the hard work is just beginning. To get to the House floor, it must first pass through a gantlet of eight congressional committees. [News Source]

Global warming costs calculated. If the world does not take any measures against global warming, the financial damage Japan would suffer from related weather damage could be 17 trillion yen per year by the end of the century. [News Source]

Leaders called to special climate talks. World leaders are to meet for an unprecedented second summit on climate change this year to try to reach agreement on a tough new treaty by December. They may even get together for a third time before the end of the year. [News Source]