Weekly news update on climate change: Oct 30

Climate change in the news (Oct 26 - Oct 30, 2009)

• EU considers new proposal to let poorer members pay less into climate change aid fund - The Associated Press
• U.N. Climate Chief Says Money for Poorer Nations Is Key to Copenhagen - The New York Times – Green Inc. Blog
• EU Demand for New CERs May Fall Post-Kyoto, Emission Group Says - Bloomberg News
• Sins of Emission: The ethanol boondoggle is also an environmental catastrophe - The Wall Street Journal
• Nothing will happen at Copenhagen until the 11th-and-a-half hour - The Guardian
• Climate change could devastate Africa, says top UK scientist - The Guardian
• EU push for climate funding unity - BBC News
• Europe puts figure on green aid to push deal - The Guardian
• Climate Change: 350 ppm Too Ambitious, Say Lawmakers - Inter Press Service
• Planting the seeds of environmental disaster - The Independent
• Lord Stern says give up meat to halt warming - The Daily Telegraph
• Brazil eyes deeper CO2 cuts, backs UN forest plan - Reuters
• Sealing climate treaty 'impossible': UN - AFP
• Wrangle over how to pay greenhouse gas bill - The Financial Times
• World Bank Warns On Climate Change - The Moscow Times
• UN chief voices cautious optimism ahead of Copenhagen climate conference - The Xinhua News
• Climate change will devastate Africa, top UK scientist warns - The Guardian
• UN climate chief downgrades hopes for post-Kyoto treaty - EurActiv
• EU summit to back 95% emissions reduction goal - EurActiv
• UN signals new climate change treaty will likely be delayed until after December conference - Associated Press Newswires
• No deal at Copenhagen without cash, legislators warn - Reuters
• U.N. lowers expectations for Copenhagen climate deal - Reuters
• Asia, Africa Are ‘More Vulnerable’ to Climate Change (Update1) - Bloomberg
• Climate change threatens quarter of Swiss farmland: research - AFP
• EU summit might fail on climate funding - EurActiv
• Op-Ed: We can do it - The International Herald Tribune
• Public finance can scale up climate investment-report - Reuters
• 'India needs to clarify what it is willing to do to limit the growth of its emissions' - Financial Express (India)
• U.S. seen needing more health preparedness for climate change - Reuters
• Italy a risk for climate change investors: Deutsche - Reuters
• UN leader hopes US will act soon on global warming - The Associated Press