Plan puts a price tag on pollution. Look at pollution as pork belly futures. Or try thinking of “cap and trade” as a game of musical chairs, where the granddaddies of greenhouse gases scramble for dwindling seats. Congress appears headed in that direction, touting cap and trade to ward off global warming. [News Source]

Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC. As a new hurricane season starts Monday, some scientists and engineers are floating an ambitious solution: Barriers to choke off the surging sea and protect flood-prone areas. [News Source]

Deadly heat. Climate change is currently killing 300,000 people a year around the world, while seriously impacting the lives of hundreds of millions more, states a controversial new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. [News Source]

Nobel laureates compare climate crisis to threat to civilisation from nuclear weapons. The Prince Charles-hosted symposium says a zero-carbon economy is the ultimate necessity, and calls for urgent cuts in emissions. [News Source]

New York, Boston “directly in path” of sea level rise. Major cities in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada "are directly in the path of the greatest rise" in sea level if Greenland continues to melt due to global warming, a new study says. [News Source]

Climate change set to wreak havoc in coastal Orissa. The latest World Bank report "Climate Change Impacts in Drought-and Flood- Affected Areas in India" has painted a very grim future for Orissa. [News Source]

Ndaitwah sounds a warning. Climate change has exacerbated drought, desertification and land degradation that are undermining agriculture in Namibia and in many African countries, the Minister of Environment and Tourism said recently. [News Source]

Climate change causes 315,000 deaths a year-report. Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday. [News Source]

Kids speak out. In the documentary series, Young Voices on Climate Change, kids are proving that they can be a powerful force in the battle against climate change. [News Source]

Workshop focuses on carbon credits. It has been described as the "new currency for dealing with global warming." Farmers may be able to earn and cash in on carbon credits by creating emissions-reducing projects, such as no-till or reduced-till agriculture to increase soil carbon and reduce fertilizer use. [News Source]

India asked to cut greenhouse gas emissions 15-30 p.c. India is under pressure from industrialised countries to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 15-30 percent by 2020. [News Source]