Claim: Onshore wind power cheaper than fossil fuels by 2016

Some of the UK’s media is quick to publish anti-wind farm stories, so it came as a surprise when picked up on a new study by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change on onshore wind energy.

The paper entitled, ‘the case for and against onshore wind energy in the UK,’ says that onshore wind energy will be as cheap as fossil fuels by 2016 – just four years away.

China's emissions estimates don't add up : Nature News & Comment

When Dabo Guan was studying the sources of carbon dioxide that were driving China to become the world’s top emitter of global-warming gases, he came across a puzzling mismatch: adding up the emissions estimates from China’s 30 provinces and municipalities gave a figure much higher than those reported for the nation as a whole¹.

This week in Nature Climate Change, Guan, an expert in sustainability science at the University of Leeds, UK, and his colleagues compare provincial aggregates with national data². They find that in 2010, the gap between the two was a whopping 1.4 gigatonnes ― equivalent to 5% of the world’s emissions, and all of Japan’s. A gap has existed since the late-1990s, but it has widened dramatically over the past 5 years.

[Brainwashed] New York City Teens to Attend Rio + 20 United Nations Sustainability Summit | MetroFocus | THIRTEEN

Five New York City high school students will attend the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 20-22. The conference, better known as Rio + 20, echoes a similar event held 20 years earlier in in 1992. It will bring together world leaders to discuss climate change, the green economy and ideas for sustainable development.

The five teens are members of Global Kids, a non-profit organization that teaches urban youth about international affairs and helps them to develop leadership skills. They spent the past year studying environmental issues and advocating for change at the local and national levels. For these students, the fight against climate change is personal.

Twitter / UN_ClimateTalks: 17-year-old Brittany is se

17-year-old Brittany is set to address 130 world leaders at ‪#RioPlus20‬. Send her a message now about the ‪#futurewewant‬ http://bit.ly/zsgL55

BBC News - Nations at odds on Rio+20 earth summit

"The Rio Earth Summit will not bring about the Future We Want, it will provide a stark and distressing reminder of the present we have," said Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International.