Racing beyond Kyoto. As representatives from 192 nations begin their second round of climate change talks, there is growing concern that the task of setting new targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is simply too onerous, despite the pressing urgency for the world to make drastic cuts. [News Source]

Forest carbon market already shows cracks. It could save the rainforests of Borneo, slow climate change, and the international community backs it. But a plan to pay tropical countries not to chop down trees and establish a forest carbon market risks being discredited by opportunists even before it starts. [News Source]

Racing beyond Kyoto. As representatives from 192 nations begin their second round of climate change talks, there is growing concern that the task of setting new targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is simply too onerous, despite the pressing urgency for the world to make drastic cuts. [News Source]

Arranging a slow farewell to a coastal wildlife refuge. A century from now, rising sea levels will have overwhelmed the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, which juts from North Carolina's mainland like a beckoning finger, shielded from the raw ocean by a sliver known as the Outer Banks. [News Source]

Calculating the true cost of carbon. U.S. firms produce from $60 billion to $80 billion worth of carbon annually but don't pay for it. What the carbon market could mean to investors. [News Source]

Big business ‘failing to disclose climate risks’ to investors. The world's major corporations are failing to provide a full account to investors of the risks and potential costs of climate change, a new report said today. [News Source]

US role in new climate treaty hinges on China. The United States is not likely to enter into a new international treaty to reduce the emissions blamed for global warming without China and other major greenhouse-gas emitters on board, the Obama administration's chief climate negotiator said Wednesday. [News Source]

Don’t play the guilt card, Lord Drayson tells green campaigners. Green campaigners and politicians must stop making people feel guilty if they want to change attitudes to action on climate change, the Science and Innovation Minister said yesterday. [News Source]

Poll: Arkansans support renewable energy. A new poll shows Arkansans overwhelmingly support new standards for energy efficiency and renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar, breathing new life into climate change proposals that failed in the state legislature this year, environmental groups said Wednesday. [News Source]

Federal report says villages need better help in relocating. The federal government could be doing more to help relocate Alaska Native communities whose vulnerability to erosion and flooding has only worsened with global warming, concludes a report from the Government Accountability Office. [News Source]

Researchers drill Siberian Lake to study history of climate change. An international team of scientists is hoping that a core - nearly a fifth of a mile long - drilled out of the bed of an ancient Siberian lake will provide a unique history of climate change over more than 3 million years. [News Source]