Climate fund seen totaling $5.5bn: report >>Source: Reuters
Tokyo: Major industrialised countries are expected to create a multibillion-dollar fund later this year to help developing countries cut greenhouse gas emissions, World Bank president Robert Zoellick has said.
LED street lights are coming >>Source: Treehugger
Dusseldorf, in Germany, has 17,000 gas street lamps. The city's power utility has decided to replace 10,000 of them with LED street lights.
Case against climate change discredited by study >>Source: Independent
UK: A difference in the way British and American ships measured the temperature of the ocean during the 1940s may explain why the world appeared to undergo a period of sudden cooling immediately after the second world war, scientists believe.
German chancellor pledges additional €500m for forest protection >>Source: International Herald Tribune
Bonn: Angela Merkel yesterday pledged €500m (US$788m) to protect global forests over the next four years, and said her country would ramp up funding to preserve the "lungs of the world" even further after that.
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