Climate insurance is in the cross hairs in negotiations for Copenhagen. The United States is being accused of trying to "kill" a prominent global warming provision that would create a massive insurance program for countries that face rising destruction from natural disasters. It would cost the U.S. and other developed nations billions every year. [News Source]

‘You will not be forgotten,’ Obama tells tribal leaders. President Obama told hundreds of tribal leaders at an Interior Department summit today that he knows what it means to feel ignored and forgotten, pledging to work with them on issues including energy development and climate change. [News Source]

Angry words as timetable for climate deal starts to slip. Green groups and activists for the developing world on Thursday accused rich nations of tiptoeing away from vows to seal a binding, far-reaching UN treaty on climate change in Copenhagen next month. [News Source]

India plays tough on carbon emissions. The country of more than 1 billion — a populace that encompasses the very rich and the very poor, and whose carbon emissions are microscopic on a per capita basis but massive overall — is uniquely vulnerable to global warming yet suspicious of international efforts to stop it. [News Source]

Senators look past Barbara Boxer’s climate bill. While Sen. Barbara Boxer was celebrating her committee’s passage of a sweeping climate change bill Thursday, other Democrats and Republicans were already looking for a Plan B. [News Source]

Forests in the desert: the answer to climate change? Under the scheme, planted fields of fast growing trees such as eucalyptus would cover the deserts of the Sahara and Australian outback, watered by seawater treated by a string of coastal desalination plants and channelled through a vast irrigation network. [News Source]

Can closing the ozone hole also help combat climate change?. Finding alternatives to refrigerants such as hydrofluorocarbons will help prevent the ozone hole being healed at climate's expense. [News Source]

Peatland response to global change. Meter for meter, peatlands store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem. Covering only about 3% of Earth's land area, they hold the equivalent of half of the carbon that is in the atmosphere as CO2. [News Source]

Environmental groups at odds over new tack in climate fight. A debate has broken out among US environmental groups, as the Senate balkily starts to focus on climate change. While some have muted their alarms, others say this is the wrong time to ease up because that might send the wrong signal. [News Source]

Senators call for financial reform before Cap and Trade. If supporters of creating a cap-and-trade program to address global warming want to grab the attention of skeptics on Capitol Hill, they might start by convincing the nation's most famous financier, Warren Buffett. [News Source]

‘Conspiracy of silence’ over climate migrants: UN official. A "conspiracy of silence" is stifling debate over the future of people who become displaced through climate change, a top UN official for refugees says. [News Source]