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Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth. The cutting-edge but controversial technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being tested at the Mikawa power station, located near the coast of Japan's southern Fukuoka prefecture.

India and China could bring themselves into a favorable position in the climate negotiations by doing more than what is expected of them, says UN top climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri.

Developing nations will need 100 billion euro annually from 2020 to tackle climate change, the EU says. It is still unsettled, however, on how much of that money should come from Europe.

A new climate deal in Copenhagen must be ambitious. Britain “should not sign up to a deal that is inadequate,” says the British Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband.

The European Union is willing to fund climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, starting next year. The EU also puts money on the table for a deal in Copenhagen, according to reports from Brussels.

EU leaders did not agree on a clear mandate for the global climate negotiations Thursday. New try at EU summit in Brussels Friday.

According to a new report from the World Resources Institute, China is on track to meet its main climate change target, which is a 20 percent reduction in energy intensity by the end of next year.

Failing to meet this year’s December deadline could also jeopardize the chances of reaching global greenhouse-gas reduction targets next year, says incoming COP15 President Connie Hedegaard.

All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week's work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the controversial legislation quickly.

Developing countries may need €100bn annually by 2020 to help them reduce emissions and adapt to climate change, European leaders said on Friday. €22-50bn of this should come from international public funds, they added, in line with European Commission recommendations.

A new type of U.N. scheme is spreading clean energy technology to millions of people in India, promising to cut carbon emissions and help investors earn valuable carbon credits.

A slumping economy pushed down Japanese CO2 emissions from burning fuels by a record 6.7 percent in the year to March 2009, the trade ministry said on Friday, but the country is still far from meeting its Kyoto Protocol obligations.

Following the success of the Corporate Standard and Project Protocol, the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Initiative is developing two new standards for product and supply chain greenhouse gas accounting and reporting.

Islands in the Indian Ocean disappear as the sea level rises. Rivers critical to India and Pakistan shrink, increasing military tensions in South Asia. Drought, famine and disease forces population shifts and political turmoil in the Middle East.

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change.

At the Brussels summit today, nine Eastern European Union countries opposed the current plan for burden-sharing the costs of climate change.

MIDRAND Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction.

DAKAR Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - Irregular and below-average rains in parts of northeastern Nigeria and eastern Niger have shortened the growing season for many farmers, sparking malnutrition and food insecurity concerns among aid groups and analysts.

NAIROBI Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - Flash floods caused by four days of torrential rains have displaced more than 15,000 people in the southwestern town of El-Waq near the Kenyan border and submerged most homes and businesses, say locals

Warming of the North Sea leads to jellyfish and crabs replacing cod and flatfish, new study concludes.