Nations urged to share low carbon development costs. Following a strict global carbon budget is the only way to ride out climate change — and this is as much the responsibility of developing countries as it is of developed ones. [News Source]

Pass on power plant was sought all along. The Grand Strand, South Carolina's tourist economic engine, won't have enough electricity by 2012 to keep its beachfront towers aglow unless a new $1.2 billion coal-burning power station is built near Florence. [News Source]

Toe green line or we will walk, Rudd told. The only environment groups offering any support for the emissions trading scheme have threatened to walk away if the Federal Government accepts amendments from the Opposition. [News Source]

Declaration signed at Governors’ Global Climate Summit. Representatives from around the world signed a declaration on climate change at the Governors' Global Climate Summit held in Los Angeles, it was announced on Saturday. [News Source]

Ketsana should teach Filipinos to be prepared for the worst, NGO says. The country's sad experience from tropical storm Ketsana should teach Filipinos to be self-reliant and be prepared for disasters, a non-government organisation espousing calamity readiness said. [News Source]

Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk. Research carried out in the archipelago of Svalbard has shown in many regions around the north pole seawater is likely to reach corrosive levels within 10 years. [News Source]

Pulling the plug on Pee Dee plant. A little-known executive with a little-known company worked behind the scene, with Santee Cooper's blessing, to find a way to make an expensive and polluting coal-fired power plant unnecessary. [News Source]

New script for India on climate change. India’s public stance on climate change is usually predictable — predictably obstinate and unwilling to compromise. But at the UN, India’s delegation toned down its usual criticisms of the industrialized world [News Source]

Biogas brings ‘green revolution’ to rural Nepal. Nepalese villager Khinu Darai used to have to walk about five kilometres every day to collect firewood so she could cook meals for her family. Then two years ago, she bought a biogas plant - an event the 30-year-old mother of three says transformed her life. [News Source]

Schwarzenegger hopes to color the state even greener. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger last week cut quickly to a debate gaining intensity in his Republican Party: Should the state's passion for environmental protection survive a foundering economy? [News Source]

Soot clouds pose threat to Himalayan glaciers. Fumes from wood fires and from diesel engines accelerate melting, Indian scientists warn. [News Source]