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Climate Change/Global Warming

Climate Change Threatens Latin Ameria and the Caribbean  [archive]
World Wildlife Federation, 8/29/2006
Climate Change has had particularly large measurable effects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report, 'Up in Smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean,' catalogues the impact of climate change and environmental degradation, confirming that largely regular and predictable temperature and rainfall patterns are changing, becoming less predictable and often more extreme.

Climate Change a Threat to Development  [archive]
Reuters, 8/29/2006
Climate change may be one of the biggest threats to attempts to cutting poverty in the world's most deprived nations and has forced the World Bank to reassess its development projects, the bank said on Tuesday.

Rich Nations' Greenhouse Gases Up, Despite Kyoto  [archive]
by Alistair Doyle, Washington Post, 8/31/2006
Industrialized nation's GHG emissions are at their highest point ever, in spite of recent efforts to reduce them.

Science

Genetic Variations in Fruit Flies Linked to Higher Temperatures  [archive]
by Beth Daley, Boston Globe, 9/4/2006
A study finding genetic variations in the fruit fly caused by global warming has significant implications concerning global warming's impact on earth's species.

Carbon Market

Keen on Green  [archive]
by David Worrell, Entrepeneur Magazine September 2006 Issue
VC firms across the country are seeing green in the growing number of environmentally friendly products and companies.

Corporate Environmentalism: Stop Seeing Green as a Burden  [archive]
by Thomas Webb, Ethical Corporation  August 2006 Issue
WWF's UK chief executive Robert Napier claims that despite the rocky start experienced by the European ETC, the price of carbon will inevitably rise.

FEATURED ARTICLE:
Warming Guilt? Travel Sites Aim to Ease
  [archive]
MSNBC, 8/29/2006
Travelocity and Expedia, rivals in the online travel reservation space, are both allowing customers who buy vacation packages to offset the carbon emissions from flights, rental cars and even hotel rooms through a tax-deductible donation to The Conservation Fund.

World Bank Logs Largest Ever Greenhouse Gas Deal  [archive]
by Abrahm Lustgarten, Fortune Magazine, 8/29/2006
The World Bank put together on Tuesday the largest greenhouse gas deal ever, where European and Asian companies and others will pay two Chinese chemical companies $1.02 billion to reduce output of gases believed to cause global warming.

CCX's New Competition  [archive]
by Abrahm Lustgarten, Fortune Magazine, 9/1/2006
The CCX pioneered pollution credit trading in the United States, but is likely to be overshadowed by California's new regulatory system.

Politics/Legislation

FEATURED ARTICLE:
California OKs Global Warming Law Deal
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CBS News, 8/30/2006
California will become the first state to impose a cap on all greenhouse gas emissions, including those from industrial plants, under a landmark deal reached Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative Democrats.

Your E-Mails: 'People Are Ready to Go Green'  [archive]
CNN, 8/31/2006
CNN readers were asked for their response to California's new emissions reductions plan. Here are some of their letters.

EU Warns Carmakers to Cut Emissions  [archive]
by Paul Ames, Associated Press, 8/29/2006
The European Union warned carmakers Tuesday that it will introduce legislation to enforce cuts in carbon dioxide emissions if the industry does not work harder to meet voluntary pollution-cutting targets.

Supreme Court Challenges Bush Stance on Global Warming  [archive]
by Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/31/2006
California and 11 other states are suing EPA to force curbs on greenhouse gases.