Set for a new trade in
THE prospect of people being given individual carbon allowances moved closer yesterday as it emerged that ministers are examining the practical implementation of a personal trading scheme.

End war on Earth, says Gore as he picks up peace prize
AL GORE, the climate-change campaigner, collected the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and said it was time to make peace with the planet.

Gore confident on 'people power'
NOBEL Peace Prize winner Al Gore is optimistic a growing "people-power" movement will push the world's leaders to act to stop global warming. "I see throughout the world the rising of the world's first people-power movement on a global basis," he said.

US dashes hopes of targets for emissions
THE United States will not announce binding emission targets at a historic climate change conference in Indonesia, despite growing pressure from developing countries to take the lead in combating global warming.

UK enduring more extreme weather patterns, official report reveals
EXTREME weather patterns have become more frequent in the UK, with Scotland's temperature rising by nearly 1C in the last 27 years, a government-funded report has concluded.

Daffodils in December? It's a land of confusion
IT is just the thing to put a spring in your step on a cold winter's day. A hardy daffodil in full bloom has sprouted up months early outside an Edinburgh pub.

Paying to preserve rain forest will help poor, UN climate talks told
INDONESIA'S Papua region is willing to preserve part of its rain forest, in exchange for money, to help the world slow global warming, its governor said at United Nations' climate talks.

Buying trees helps drivers cut pollution
COMMUTERS driving between Edinburgh and Glasgow have helped to offset some of their pollution by buying trees.

Saving the environment is everyone's business
Local companies' actions can have a global impact, says Sir Ken Collins.

Fighting climate change may still cost the earth
Poor suffering as growth in biofuels forces up cereal prices, writes ALASTAIR JAMIESON

US participation essential for agreement on climate-control measures
ANY agreement hammered out by a massive United Nations climate-change conference starting in Indonesia today would not make sense without the participation of the US, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, the UN's climate chief said last night.

Brown says N-power will benefit the environment
GORDON Brown yesterday re-ignited the row over building new nuclear power stations, signalling he believed they had a role to play in tackling climate change.

£100 - That's how much it will cost you to save planet, says CBI
TACKLING climate change could cost households just £100 a year by 2030 - but only if action is taken now to prepare for the challenges ahead, business leaders warned yesterday.

The voices of the damned
THEY are the human face of climate change - the ordinary people whose lives are blighted by flooding, drought, hurricanes and soaring temperatures.

Climate alert as levels hit new high
LEVELS of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by burning fossil fuels, hit a record high in the atmosphere in 2006, accelerating global warming, the World Meteorological Organisation said yesterday.



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