An Apollo Program for Climate Change  [archive]
by David Sokol in the Washington Post, 6/22/2007
In an op-ed for the Washington Post, the chairman and chief executive of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. claims that we should pursue the "Kennedyesque goal of making the transition from 250 years of carbon-intensive growth to a low-carbon future in the next 25 years."

Public Health in Developing Countries to Suffer Most from Climate Change  [archive]
from ScienceDaily, 6/19/2007
Climate change is an emerging threat to global public health. It is also highly inequitable, as the greatest risks are to the poorest populations, who have contributed least to greenhouse gas emissions.

Group: China Tops World in C02 Emissions  [archive]
by Audra Ang, AP, 6/20/2007
China has overtaken the United States as the world's top producer of carbon dioxide emissions, a Dutch research group says.

Science

Scientists Close in on Missing Carbon Sink   [archive]
from Newswise, 6/18/2007
Forests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought, according to a study appearing in Science this week.

Antarctic Icebergs: Hotspots of Ocean Life   [archive]
from ScienceDaily, 6/22/2007
Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free-drifting icebergs, which has a major impact on the ecology of the ocean around them.

Farming the Oceans to Combat Global Warming  [archive]
by J. Michah Grunert, 6/20/2007
A casual summary of the many press pieces on the Planktos seeding project that were published this week.

Carbon Market

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Why 'Green' Investing Has Gained Focus  [archive]
by Jilian Mincer, Wall Street Journal, 6/21/2007
Investment managers are introducing green mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, and investment strategists are advising bankers, brokers and clients to think about how climate change will affect their investments. They are finding intense interest.

Kyoto Carbon Trade: Market Solution or Illusion?   [archive]
by Gerard Wynn, Reuters, 6/20/2007
Carbon trading under the Kyoto Protocol is giving a sharpened focus for the debate over whether carbon trading is a meaningful solution to climate change.

Carbon Trading: Where Greed is Green  [archive]
by James Kanter, International Herald Tribune, 6/20/2007
"Carbon will be the world's biggest commodity market, and it could become the world's biggest market overall," said Redshaw, the head of environmental markets at Barclays Capital.

Companies Get Scored on Global Warming  [archive]
from AP, 6/19/2007
In a statement, Climate Counts said Canon, Nike and Unilever got the best scores in its initial ratings of 56 companies.

Google Aims to Go Carbon-Neutral  [archive]
from Reuters, 6/19/2007
Google Inc. aims to voluntarily cut or offset all of its greenhouse emissions by the end of the year, the Web search leader said on Tuesday .

Politics/Legislation

Global Warming and Economic Growth  [archive]
by Brian Thurber and Berl Hartman, Boston Globe, 6/24/2007
The energy coordinator for Clean Water Action and the co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs in New England write an op-ed advancing suggestions for climate measures that can be adopted by the New England governors at an upcoming meeting.

Maine Governor Signs Global Warming Bill  [archive]
by Glenn Adams, Associated Press, 6/18/2007
Gov. John Baldacci signed legislation Monday that includes Maine in the nation's first regional effort to control greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system.

G8 're-energizes' Post-2012 Climate Talks  [archive]
from Carbon Finance, 6/19/2007
The G8 has accepted US President George Bush’s offer to convene a series of meetings of the world’s major emitters to establish by the end of 2008 a new global framework to combat climate change.

A New Carbon Standard  [archive]
by Daniel Sperling in the Los Angeles Times, 6/21/2007
The author of this op-ed is the director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis and co-leader of the University of California study of the proposed low-carbon fuel standard. Instead of a carbon tax, he advocates a low-carbon standard that "sends a fuels-neutral signal that alternatives are welcome."

A New Carbon Standard  [archive]
from PointCarbon, 6/21/2007
The US is to ask the UN to scrutinise the activities of Planktos.