UN Offers $10,000 Prize For Best Climate Change App

Now creating a great app won't exactly stop global warming--unless perhaps it manages to convince governments and corporations to get off their collective arses and actually do something meaningful about greenhouse gas emissions--but $10,000 is what the UN's International Telecommunication Union is offering. Sponsored by Research In Motion and Telefónica, the contest hopes to take climate-related apps beyond carbon footprinting and help them "move to the next stage".