Climate change: ‘Berkeley has a special obligation,’ conference speakers say (UC Berkeley NewsCenter) About 100 climate-change experts gathered at Berkeley Thursday for "Beyond Copenhagen: Forging a Global Response to Climate Change." The conference focused on what happened (and didn't happen) at the global climate talks in Copenhagen, and on the future of negotiations over global warming. [News Source]

UN says nations’ greenhouse gas pledges too little Goals on reducing greenhouse gases announced by major industrialized nations are a step forward but not enough to forestall the disastrous effects of climate change by midcentury, U.N. officials said Monday. [News Source]

Climate change deal unlikely (Hindustan Times) A global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the negotiations. [News Source]

States renew vows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Governments around the world have reaffirmed their plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in support of last month's Copenhagen climate summit. [News Source]

Britain protests over false melting glacier claims. Britain has officially expressed its concern to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about lax scientific procedures used by the body which supplies the world with the facts about global warming. [News Source]

Ed Miliband pleads for belief in climate change as fresh hole blown in claims. It would be "profoundly irresponsible" to allow recent controversies over scientific data to undermine the fight against global warming, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said yesterday. [News Source]

Climbing magazine cited by climate panel. The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountains on a master's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine, The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday. [News Source]

Caught again! UN climate claims on ice loss melt away. The UN's climate change panel has been caught making unfounded claims for the third time in just two weeks. [News Source]

Ed Miliband defends climate change science. Recent controversies over scientific data have not undermined efforts to tackle global warming, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has insisted. [News Source]

Suppliers that don’t manage CO2 could lose clients. Some 56 percent of large firms would in the future deselect suppliers for failing to meet criteria on managing carbon emissions, according to a survey by the Carbon Disclosure Project. [News Source]

Save the ozone layer, give global warming a boost? While most of the world has warmed, parts of the southern hemisphere have remained stubbornly cold—oddly enough because of a gaping hole in the ozone layer. [News Source]