Cornered Ramesh now sings a different climate tune - dnaindia.com

New Delhi: Faced with brickbats and denied support by the Congress, Union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh issued a retraction on Tuesday of his suggestion to dilute India's stand on climate change negotiations to accommodate the US, junk Kyoto Protocol and get out of G-77 grouping of developing nations.

The idea was also dumped resoundingly at the meeting of ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) member nations on climate change. India and other South Asian nations decided on Tuesday to stick to the course laid down in Kyoto Protocol, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Bali Action Plan during the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.

UN - Ban to [take fossil-fueled trip to Seattle, where he'll talk with Bill Gates about something other than the alleged dangers of CO2]

The Secretary-General will also meet with Bill and Melinda Gates, whose philanthropic foundation bearing their names has worked with the UN on efforts to obtain the MDGs by the target date of 2015.

Ms. Okabe said the focus of the meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Gates will be on advancing food security and global health, especially maternal, newborn and child health.

Reuters AlertNet - Space agencies, Google seek ways to save forests

OSLO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Space agencies and Google Inc <GOOG.O> are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said on Tuesday.
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A 190-nation U.N. climate pact due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December is likely to approve a plan to slow deforestation in tropical nations. That may include putting a price on carbon stored in trees as part of a new market.

"Investors will want some kind of guarantee that when they are putting money into forests that the forests ... will remain there and remain in good condition," Achache said.

DailyTech - Australia's Version of Obama's Carbon Trading Scheme Under Fire

Dr. Jensen, though, is among several MPs suggesting that the proposal be thrown out. He states, "Another reason for my concern is that embarking on setting a price on carbon dioxide is effectively putting a tax on everything and will give the control freaks a level of control on all human enterprise within a nation not seen in democratic history."