London’s Mayor, Ken Livinstone will announce radical plans to slash London’s carbon emissions by 60% within 20 years.
Livingstone wants a quarter of London’s electricity supply to be shifted from the national grid to local combined heat-and-power systems by 2025.

Iraq’s hugely controversial oil law edged closer to approval after Kurds said some key issues had now been resolved between them and Baghdad.
“Some of the issues in debate between the Kurdish regional government and the federal government in Baghdad were solved recently,” said Fauad Hussain, the head of the presidency board in Kurdistan.

Antarctica’s melting ice sheets have given scientists a new insight to the weird and wonderful life in the seas around the continent that have been sealed off for 12,000 years. This unique and thriving underwater world is being transformed by climate change.
The break-up of the Larsen ice shelves opened up a pristine area of sea [...]

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp - better known as Sinopec – has signed a $3.5 billion contract with Saudi Aramco and Exxon Mobil for a refinery in southern China’s Fujian province.
The refinery in Quanzhou will have a crude refining capacity of 240,000 barrels a day and is expected to be operational in early 2009.

The UK Government’s commitment to tackling climate change is once again under scrutiny after it has emerged that the long-awaited climate change Bill has been downgraded.
The measure will be published next month as a draft Bill for consultation rather than as a fully fledged piece of legislation. Critics claim that it means that David Miliband, [...]