Guardian: Barack Obama will move to seal a deal with Russia for joint action on climate change during his summit in Moscow next week, the Guardian has learned. Obama arrives in Moscow on Monday at the start of a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana that will focus heavily on energy and climate change. From Moscow, Obama travels on to Italy for a meeting of the G8 and a gathering of the major polluting countries. Administration officials are still working out the broad outlines of an agreement ...

Reuters: Officials from a 17-member body which account for the lions share of the world's carbon emissions will hold urgent talks next Tuesday to iron out differences on the eve of a July 8-10 summit of the G8. Group of Eight diplomats and climate change officials told Reuters the meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) was called to narrow the gap between rich countries and developing nations such as India over long-term targets on global warming and emissions. Leaders of MEF ...

New York Times: Groups on both sides of the spectrum have begun hitting the airwaves with new advertisements on climate-change legislation, underscoring the political ramifications going forward of the House`s razor-thin passage of the major climate and energy bill just a week ago. The latest, released on Thursday by the Environmental Defense Fund, defends a group of mostly Democratic House members who voted for the climate-change legislation, which passed the House 219-212. These ads are offering a ...

Reuters: The European Union is likely to achieve its target of generating 10 percent of transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020 by blending biofuels with fossil fuels, a leading EU researcher said. Most blending is likely to use first-generation biofuels produced with food crops, said Giovanni De Santi, director of the Energy Institute at the European Union Commission's Joint Research Center. The EU plans to source 10 percent of transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020 to ...

Guardian: The British public could invest their savings in the UK's renewable energy revolution and reap the financial rewards of helping to save the planet, under ambitious plans to be discussed this weekend. The Public Interest Research Centre, a thinktank based in Wales, says the government could sell "energy bonds" to pay for the required investment. The scheme would be similar to war bonds, which galvanised financial support in Britain during the second world war. The idea is one of ...

National Public Radio: Reporting in Nature Geoscience, two coastal scientists write that rising sea levels, combined with slow Mississippi Delta growth, could drown the Louisiana coast by 2100. Delta expert Ivor van Heerden, who is not involved with the research, discusses the findings

Australian: INEFFICIENT hot water systems will be phased out and all appliances will be properly labelled under new national energy efficiency standards as part of a 10-year energy efficiency plan adopted by the Council of Australian Governments yesterday. And state and territory leaders have also agreed to streamline and harmonise processes for building applications to reduce red tape and costs for developers. While much of the focus at COAG was on indigenous affairs yesterday, the ...

Greenwire: Brokers in renewable-energy certificates have reservations about provisions in the House-passed climate and energy bill that would set a national renewable electricity standard. While most clean technology analysts assume the bill sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts would expand the market for the green certificates -- tradable commodities known commonly as RECs -- veterans in the REC trade fear federal mandates will crush a voluntary ...