The leading auto manufacturers argue that a case brought against them by California Attorney General Bill Lokyer for contributing to global warming shouldn’t go to court on the grounds that global warming is so important that they wouldn’t get a fair trial. Sounds reasonable enough.

The UK has passed binding legislation to curb CO2 emissions. The government will need to “count the carbon, just as they count the pennies,” says Treasury chief Gordon Brown. The bill called for emissions to be reduced by 60 percent by 2050, and by as much as 32 percent by 2020. Targets were based on 1990 levels. The Green Party said emissions should be reduced by 90 percent by 2050.

On a large tract of land in Thailand’s dusty northeast, Suwit Yotongyot hopes to make a fortune on jatropha, a plant with a poisonous nut that might hold the key to the nation’s energy troubles.

Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting in Brussels this week to chart the consequences of global warming on populations and ecosystems worldwide and agree possible measures to tackle it.

Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts – the effects of rising global temperatures are already widely felt around the world.

But the poorest nations are set to suffer more, and are the least prepared to cope with the expected consequences, climate scientists will warn on 6 April 2007.

The European Commission will release 2006 carbon emissions data from companies involved in the EU’s emissions trading scheme at midday central European time (1000 GMT) on Monday, the Commission confirmed.

In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a US government agency has the power under the clean air law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming.

The nation’s highest court by a 5-4 vote said the US Environmental Protection Agency “has offered no reasoned explanation” for its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide and other emissions from new cars and trucks that contribute to climate change.

It appears that world’s biggest emitter of CO2 takes the same view of carbon cuts that the Canadian government takes.

The world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases will pursue a policy of jeopardizing economic growth in order to pursue economic growth.

Britain and Germany are leading efforts to persuade US, China and India to join the carbon trading scheme – the global plan to bring together polluters to fight climate change.