The Washington Post reports yesterday that:

U.S. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal
Germany Urges Limiting Emissions, Temperature Increase

U.S. officials have raised a second round of unusually bluntly worded objections to a proposed global-warming declaration that Germany prepared for next month's Group of Eight summit, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Representatives from the world's leading industrial nations met the past two days in Heiligendamm, Germany, to negotiate over German Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposed statement, which calls for limiting the worldwide temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit and cutting global greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 ...

The British government today announced some guidelines and recommendations it believes will help the UK government as it embarks on new regulatory regimes to address issues of climate change. The government was moved to do this in response to a report submitted to it by the Better Regulation Commission (BRC)...   more »

You may have heard yesterday that the RCMP arrested and charged a federal government employee of Environment Canada for allegedly leaking drafts of what would be the government’s clean air plan. Here’s a roundup of reaction from various politicians after Question Period yesterday. The questions are being put to ...   more »

Green Party leader Elizabeth May just put out the following statement in response to reaction to her comments in which she compared the Harper government’s Green Plan to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of Nazi appeasement in the 1930s.

Statement by Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Party of Canada

“I ...   more »