‘Green deal’ set to prompt landlords’ backlash

The move is likely to prompt a backlash from property owners who will fear that the move could mean thousands of pounds of extra costs.

However, the plan will be welcomed by environmental campaigners, with Martyn Williams, parliamentary campaigner for Friends of the Earth, saying it would be a “very positive development”.

Look past China's smog and noise and you can see greener action | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The country leads the world in wind and solar power manufacturing and installation, but is also the world's most polluting nation, with emissions set to rise for many years.

Asking Chinese people about global warming and what to do about it, I find no scepticism about the basic premise that human's greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change. But there is either apathy – "people don't care about climate change, they don't think it is something that means they have to change their lives" or a blame-the-west attitude "You have been polluting for decades – we are just starting on this new life."
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The carbon footprint of that high-consumption new life is huge, which is why China's per-person emissions in some places has already surpassed those in the west.

UN Climate Change Talks Make Little Progress, U.S. Envoy Pershing Says - Bloomberg

The lead U.S. negotiator at global climate-change talks now underway in China said little progress has been made and warned that efforts may splinter if no accord is reached at the next meetings in Cancun, Mexico.

“The consequences of not having an agreement after Cancun are something to worry about,” Jonathan Pershing said today in a briefing with three news organizations in Tianjin. “It may mean that we don’t use this process exclusively going forward,” he said, adding that he remains optimistic progress can be made in the current negotiations.

AFP: US says little progress in climate change talks

Pershing warned the UN climate change process could itself be at risk unless the bickering countries started to make progress soon.

"The consequences of not having an agreement coming out of Cancun are things we have to worry about, something to be considered seriously," he said.

"Because the process is going to be very hard-pressed to continue to have these enormous sessions... unless we can use the process to good effect."