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"Can we actually save the Netherlands? Or should we abandon part of the country?" This is the basic question Dutch leaders were asking themselves within the context of global warming after witnessing Hurricane Katrina's devastating blow to New Orleans in 2005.

The draft of a negotiating text for a new pact on climate change survived its maiden hearing at UN talks on Monday, providing a boost on a road still strewn with many obstacles, delegates and officials said.

When students at Harvard Business School graduate next week, many of them will be taking a new oath that says, in effect, greed is not good. Nearly 20 percent of the graduating class have signed ''The M.B.A. Oath,'' a voluntary student-led pledge that the goal of a business manager is to ''serve the greater good.'' It promises that the graduates will act responsibly and ethically and will refrain from advancing their ''own narrow ambitions'' at the expense of others.

As noted in a report from the Government Accountability Office for the House Foreign Affairs Committee last August, the United States remains notoriously lax in its regulation of electronics waste and the business of shipping it overseas. ''U.S. hazardous waste regulations have not deterred exports of potentially hazardous used electronics,'' the report concluded.

Abu Dhabi's state-owned green energy firm Masdar has integrated its first solar power plant into the emirate's electricity grid, state news agency WAM reported late on Sunday.

The Asian Development Bank Saturday called on its Asian government borrowers to design mass transport systems in a way that would slow the rapid growth of their greenhouse gas emissions.

Diamonds are a luxury—but not to some of the world's poorest who mine them.

The best way to curb global warming would be a carbon tax. The money raised could be divided up among citizens or used to repay the national debt. A tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) would give everyone an incentive to emit less of it. It would be simple, direct and transparent. For these reasons, it will never happen in America.

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, May 28, 2009 (IRIN) - A detailed study of the effects of climate change on Mozambique has confirmed what many experts feared: unless immediate action is taken, the country will be overwhelmed by the impacts of cyclones, floods, droughts and disease outbreaks.

As climate change is altering the landscape of wine making, emerging countries are starting to rival long-standing wine nations.

A new policy paper from the International Organization for Migration predicts a surge in climate migration. Pacific islanders are first in line.

Shipping and aviation are exempted from the present international agreement on greenhouse gases. The British transport minister Geoff Hoon wants to change that in Copenhagen.

IBM, Sun and Dell are the leaders, while Sony, Sharp and Toshiba are the losers in a ranking by the environmental group – but everybody fails the test.

29 May 2009 -- WHO today urged governments to require that all tobacco packages include pictorial warnings to show the sickness and suffering caused by tobacco use.

Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc accuses other government ministries of disregarding environmental laws in pursuit of Amazon development projects.

No US-Chinese consensus was reached this week on positions to take to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December, yet House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains "hopeful".

India has started a pilot project to quantify climate benefits from a massive anti-poverty scheme that could become one of the country's main weapons to fight criticism it is not doing enough to tackle global warming.

Carbon credits derived from a fledgling forest conservation scheme for developing nations will struggle to compete with palm oil as an investment, industry advisers and conservationists said on Friday.

Nearly 60 percent of remaining forests in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province could be saved by a U.N.-backed scheme that aims to save forests in return for valuable carbon credits, the provincial governor said on Friday.

An NGO blueprint for sustainable consumption and production (SCP) calls on governments, business and citizens to consume less and start living within Earth's limits.