Congress OKs bill creating P1-B annual fund for climate change adaptation The Philippine Congress has approved a measure allotting P1 billion yearly for the government’s efforts to combat the effects of climate change. [News Source]

China Emissions Suggest Climate Change Could Be Faster than Thought By David Fogarty and David Stanway SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's carbon emissions could be nearly 20 percent higher than previously thought, a new analysis of official Chinese data showed on Sunday, suggesting the pace of global climate change could be even faster than currently predicted. China has already overtaken the United States as the world's top greenhouse gas polluter, producing ... [News Source]

Global warming threatens marine ecosystem: Yapa Aquatic life and the marine ecosystem have been threatened due to global warming and coastal and marine environmental pollution, Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said. He said global warming has affected the supportive conditions for aquatic life. [News Source]

China emissions study suggests climate change could be faster than thought SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's carbon emissions could be nearly 20 percent higher than previously thought, a new analysis of official Chinese data showed on Sunday, suggesting the pace of global climate change could be even faster than currently predicted. China has already overtaken the United States as the world's top greenhouse gas polluter, producing about a quarter of mankind's ... [News Source]

Nature on Uncertainty: Climate Change is Less Important Than We Thought This is an interesting paper in Nature on the uncertainty we have about the future of the environment and ecosphere. A short description here and the full paper here. I doubt very much that this is what the paper?s authors would say is the correct solution but what they?re really saying is that climate change ... [News Source]

Climate change and fishing in the Pacific Fifteen countries and territories are meeting in Noumea this week to discuss how climate change will affect Pacific fisheries and how they can ensure fishing and aquaculture will continue contributing to their food security, livelihoods and community development. [News Source]

Record heat marches on: Texas and contiguous US had warmest spring on record. Much of Texas has been getting something of a break from the history-making, headline-grabbing drought of 2011 in recent months, but the state’s excessive heat marches on. In 2012, Texas had its warmest spring on record and its third warmest January-through-May period. [News Source]

The threat posed by climate change in Bangladesh – in pictures. Millions of poor people in Bangladesh are risking their lives, homes and land because they are forced to live along constantly changing river systems. [News Source]

Global warming and the economic effect. The doomsday scenario for global warming is as chilling as ever, but in the shadow of economic meltdown there are fears that Rio+20 will just be a talking shop. [News Source]

Rio 20 Earth summit’s leaked draft reveals chaos among countries. The latest draft text that 180 governments are expected to sign up to at the end of the Rio+20 Earth summit has been leaked to the Guardian. According to the UN, only about 20% of the wording has been agreed. [News Source]

Abbott won’t repeal carbon tax: Gillard. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has promised to dump the carbon tax, due to start in July, if he wins government in 2013. But Prime Minister Julia Gillard says her Liberal foe is unlikely to deliver on his promise. [News Source]