Amid droughts and failed crops, a cycle of poverty worsens. India has long been plagued by unscrupulous moneylenders who exploit impoverished farmers. But with crops failing more frequently due to climate change and environmental mismanagement, farmers are left even more desperate and vulnerable. [News Source]

‘Nations will vanish and millions lose their homes to rising seas.’ A rise in sea levels of 1.4m predicted today in a major climate report would result in the loss of entire nations and the displacement of about ten per cent of the world’s population, according to scientists. [News Source]

EU accused of risking Copenhagen climate talks with stance on aid funding. The EU was accused of threatening the global climate talks last night after confidential papers showed it wants existing overseas aid funding to be used to help poor countries adapt to global warming, not new and additional funds. [News Source]

Tony Abbott is new opposition leader; ETS dead. The federal Liberal Party has elected Tony Abbott as leader and in an unprecedented secret ballot voted overwhelmingly to defeat the Government's emissions trading scheme, guaranteeing the death of the Rudd Government's ETS. [News Source]

World carbon emissions overshoot budget, study finds. Major nations, including EU countries that pride themselves on climate policies, are lagging in a push for low-carbon growth. Collectively the world is far above a "budget" of total emissions through 2050 that avoids the worst impact from climate change, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers. [News Source]

Copenhagen summit: It’s money that matters in the backroom talks. Copenhagen may lead over the next 20 years to the largest transfer of money in history from the global north to the south, dwarfing the amount that developing countries now receive in aid. [News Source]

Amid droughts and failed crops, a cycle of poverty worsens. India has long been plagued by unscrupulous moneylenders who exploit impoverished farmers. But with crops failing more frequently due to climate change and environmental mismanagement, farmers are left even more desperate and vulnerable. [News Source]

Indonesia forestry graft threatens carbon trade, report warns. Indonesian plans to set up a carbon trading market potentially worth billions of dollars to protect rain forests may fail because of widespread corruption in its forestry sector, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Forest carbon scheme hopes for green light in Copenhagen. While nations bicker over the size of emissions cuts and climate funds, saving forests has turned out to be among the least contentious issues in U.N. climate talks and has achieved the most progress. [News Source]

Coal concerns lead U.S. climate bill challenges. For anyone trying to understand why the United States is having such a hard time joining an international effort to combat global warming, a short drive west from Washington to one of the smaller states in the country might explain a lot. [News Source]

Debating the IPCC. The content of stolen e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has prompted much discussion about the way peer-reviewed science is conducted. But it is also raising questions among some scientists about the workings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [News Source]