Africa experiments with climate insurance. Ethiopian farmers are buying drought insurance with a muscular currency: their own labor. The risk might become more acute as greenhouse gases threaten to make Ethiopia's rainy season more erratic, causing periodic drought or disrupting traditional growing seasons. [News Source]

Farmed out: How will climate change impact world food supplies? A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture--and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences [News Source]

Britons creating ‘more emissions’. Greenhouse gas emissions created by Britons are probably twice as bad as figures suggest, says the government's new chief energy scientist. [News Source]

‘Planned recession’ could avoid catastrophic climate change. Britain will have to stop building airports, switch to electric cars and shut down coal-fired power stations as part of a 'planned recession' to avoid dangerous climate change. [News Source]

U.S. group urges strong patent rights in climate deal. The United States could lose 1 million green jobs by 2020 if it gives into demands by poor countries to loosen patent protections on climate-friendly technologies, a U.S. business leader said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Senate climate bill drops ‘cap and trade’ term. Democrats' newest catch phrase to sell their global warming bill: pollution reduction and investment, or PRI. [News Source]

Turnbull may resign over ETS. Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has threatened to quit if his Liberal Party colleagues don't endorse his stance on carbon trading. [News Source]

‘Green’ charge on parking. Richmond upon Thames is first to charge drivers based on the carbon dioxide emissions of their vehicle. [News Source]

No rainforest, no monsoon: Get ready for a warmer world. What will a 4 °C increase in the world look like? Brace yourself: the picture painted by the 130 climate researchers at the Oxford conference is not pretty. [News Source]

Climate change endangers Dunes. The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is among 25 national parks most endangered by climate change, according to a report to be released today. [News Source]

Time running out for Riverina forests. The state's iconic river red gum forests in the Riverina are under serious threat with many of the trees dead, dying or highly stressed, a new report by the Premier's senior advisory body has found. [News Source]