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Green news from Wall Street: Merrill Lynch will invest of $9 million to finance a project to protect 750,000 hectares of forest in Indonesia.

“The Bush administration doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the environment in the Arctic, but they do care about protecting their national security.” — Michael Byers, author of Intent for a Nation: What Is Canada For? December 12, 2007, ArcticNet conference, Collingwood, Ontario

However, major powers in the developed and developing world remain bitterly divided over the best plan of action. The disunity was underlined during December’s UN summit in Bali which aimed to establish the foundations for a new climate deal when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Darcy Lambton n…

James Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality, describes how success in Bali climate change negotiations came down to the placement of punctuation.

Developing countries flexed their muscles in unprecedented ways at the climate talks, suggesting the old north-south power equation is changing.

A "historic" Bali deal. A "Berlin Wall" dividing rich and poor nations on global warming policy falls. A "new chapter" for Washington after six years of climate disputes with many of its allies.

Behind the millions of words at the Bali climate conference, in documents, speeches and slick brochures, lay a set of simple numbers: 2 and 445 and "25 to 40."

Coming out of Bali are details on a new plan to address the largest overlooked contributor to climate change – the destruction of forests. Right now, developing countries earn more from cutting forests than from keeping them standing. This plan looks to establish a financial value for the carbon stored in standing forests.

Bali climate talks go down to ‘crunch time’

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference now under way in Bali, Indonesia, UNICEF has held a series of events to highlight the effects of global warming on children and to ensure that young people are involved in debate on this issue.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Al Gore, presents the role of international treaty negotiations and domestic action in solving the climate crisis.

The last day of the UNFCCC Climate Change in Bali and what's going on? Is there an agreement or a standoff? Who's in and who's out? Is there an agreement or does this drag on?

Europe toned down a clash with the United States over 2020 climate goals on the final day of U.N. talks in Bali on Friday, raising hopes of a deal to start negotiations on a new global warming treaty.

Negotiations reached an impasse at the UN climate talks in Bali Friday as the US and the European Union remain divided over setting specific 2020 guidelines for developed nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The U.S. and Europe headed toward a compromise Friday at the U.N. climate conference, breaking a deadlock over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global warming gases, officials said.