New financial scheme turns heat on rich nations. A new financial mechanism to help the developing world deal with the challenges posed by climate change looms as a major hurdle on the road leading up to a United Nations summit in Copenhagen in mid-December. [News Source]

How will climate change affect Britain’s crops? Olives, kiwi fruit, almonds – as the climate gets hotter in the UK, we may well be producing our own exotic crops. [News Source]

How did Pawlenty go from GOP’s ‘green edge’ to charges of a flip-flop? Gov. Tim Pawlenty is getting a burst of attention for seemingly altering his stance favoring a cap-and-trade approach to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. [News Source]

‘Climate witnesses’ don’t want Western handouts. At a tribunal held last week in South Africa, small-scale farmers from Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Ethiopia and South Africa gave moving accounts of how their communities were coping with the cycle of floods and droughts that has gripped their homelands. [News Source]

Canada, Alberta fund Shell’s CCS project for oil sands. The governments said they would cover about two-thirds the cost of Shell's Quest project, which is aimed at capturing and storing 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the Athabasca Oil Sands Project. [News Source]

Soros to invest $1 billion in clean energy, form advisory group. Billionaire George Soros, looking to address the “political problem” of climate change, said he will invest $1 billion in clean-energy technology and create an organization to advise policy makers on environmental issues. [News Source]

Climate plan sends air of unease across Rust Belt. A cap-and-trade system forcing businesses away from fossil fuels, especially coal, will mean higher electricity and natural gas costs. [News Source]

Bill McKibben tells why 350 is a crucial number. Middlebury College scholar and author, Bill McKibben reckons that 350 ppm is a safe upper limit of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, so with the current concentration at about 390 and rising, he has started a new group, 350.org, to raise awareness of global warming. [News Source]

Offshore drilling could add, subtract support for Senate climate bill. A push to make a cap-and-trade bill more enticing to Republicans by adding new offshore drilling could create new barriers to passage even if it toppled others, lobbyists and observers say. [News Source]

Sen. Lindsay Graham signs on to climate bill. Republican South Carolinian Senator Lindsay Graham publicly announced his support for climate legislation on Sunday, in an editorial co-authored with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry. [News Source]

How the West was not won on climate. Malcolm Turnbull has been delivered a slap in the face by the West Australian Liberal Party, with near unanimous hostility towards his plan to amend Labor's emissions trading scheme before the Copenhagen summit. [News Source]