wildsingapore news: Carbon cap deal "very difficult": U.N. climate chief

Asked whether he ruled out agreement on the most commonly referenced range of emissions cuts, Yvo de Boer said:

"I'm not ruling it out but I'm saying it would be very difficult. If you look at the offers that are on the table at the moment they're a long way from that range."

wildsingapore news: Government CO2 market growth may deter "green" spending

LONDON (Reuters) - Clean energy project developers may lose carbon offset buyers as a result of the global economic downturn combined with increased transparency in a government-level emissions trading scheme under the Kyoto Protocol, French bank Societe Generale said on Monday.

Arctic sea ice allegedly thinnest ever going into spring

WASHINGTON — The Arctic is treading on thinner ice than ever before. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice in the Arctic is only 1 or 2 years old. That makes it thinner and more vulnerable than at anytime in the past three decades, according to researchers with NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.

"We're not set up well for summertime," ice data center scientist Walt Meier said Monday. "We're in a very precarious situation."