The latest climate change news from around the globe, brought to you by UNEP/GRID-Arendal.http://www.earthwire.org/climate New biofuels offer a sustainable source of energy but we must consider the ethical and social implications, say Joyce Tait and Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka. http://www.scidev.net/en/climate-change-and-energy/are-new-biofuels-the-ethical-answer-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_climatechangeandenergy http://www.scidev.net/en/climate-change-and-energy/are-new-biofuels-the-ethical-answer-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_climatechangeandenergy 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 SCIDEV.NET OSLO (Reuters) - A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history, managers said on Thursday. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/eP2Kon3glIA/idUSTRE62A01I20100311 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/eP2Kon3glIA/idUSTRE62A01I20100311 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters OSLO (Reuters) - A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated on Wednesday. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/eGsTd-0qlUI/idUSTRE62939O20100310 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/eGsTd-0qlUI/idUSTRE62939O20100310 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez is confident that God and nature will pull Venezuela out of a power crisis battering both the economy and his popularity. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/hM6LtZaMuJw/idUSTRE6292QQ20100310 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/hM6LtZaMuJw/idUSTRE6292QQ20100310 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top environmental adviser urged the natural gas industry on Tuesday to disclose the chemicals it uses in drilling, warning that the development of massive U.S. shale gas reserves could be held back otherwise. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/0veoPPbcWaE/idUSTRE6292MM20100310 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/0veoPPbcWaE/idUSTRE6292MM20100310 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/DZFCOKC4SH0/idUSTRE62924T20100310 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/DZFCOKC4SH0/idUSTRE62924T20100310 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/P6zvZA1sosM/idUSTRE6292PZ20100310 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/P6zvZA1sosM/idUSTRE6292PZ20100310 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ambassadors agreed to propose protecting bluefin tuna as an endangered species on Wednesday, the EU presidency said, a move that would effectively ban international trade in the species. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/UjVbEUgr9yg/idUSTRE6293QX20100310 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/UjVbEUgr9yg/idUSTRE6293QX20100310 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia will this year allow hunters to kill 75 brown bears and 12 wolves to limit the damage they do to crops and livestock and prevent numbers growing, the environment ministry said on Wednesday. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/DFUUQ72z5ug/idUSTRE6293B720100310 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/DFUUQ72z5ug/idUSTRE6293B720100310 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters The year 2010 is a crucial year for forests. In March, major donor countries and forest-rich countries will meet in Paris, Nairobi and Manila, each grappling with the same question: How can efforts to reduce deforestation also help tackle climate change? Their decisions, and those following in the next six to 12 months, could channel substantial amounts of money to protect forests. http://www.climatebiz.com/blog/2010/03/10/whats-next-redd http://www.climatebiz.com/blog/2010/03/10/whats-next-redd 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 ClimateBiz Carbon management software firm Enviance unveiled a new product Tuesday to help companies comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas reporting rules. http://www.climatebiz.com/news/2010/03/10/new-enviance-software-help-count-ghgs-60-days-or-less http://www.climatebiz.com/news/2010/03/10/new-enviance-software-help-count-ghgs-60-days-or-less 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 ClimateBiz Nomadic pastoralism boosts African economies and protects livestock from drought. So why is it under threat? Ced Hesse explains.Mobile-livestock keeping, or pastoralism, plays a critical role in the economic prosperity of Africa’s drylands. Across east and west Africa, an estimated 50 million http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3524 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3524 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 chinadialogue.net The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/news/int/search/news/climate+change/-/2/hi/science/nature/8561004.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/news/int/search/news/climate+change/-/2/hi/science/nature/8561004.stm 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 BBC World Service In his regular column, BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin asks whether the EU's biofuels policy will stand up to scrutiny. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/news/int/search/news/climate+change/-/2/hi/science/nature/8559661.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/news/int/search/news/climate+change/-/2/hi/science/nature/8559661.stm 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 BBC World Service The former head of MI5 has claimed US intelligence services "concealed" their mistreatment of terror suspects. And reoffending by thousands of criminals serving short sentences in England and Wales costs up to £10bn a year, a new report has found. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/news/int/search/news/climate+change/-/nol/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_8550000/newsid_8559000/8559081.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/news/int/search/news/climate+change/-/nol/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_8550000/newsid_8559000/8559081.stm 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 BBC World Service http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/newsFullStory.asp?ID=2853 http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/newsFullStory.asp?ID=2853 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 Green Building Press Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310162831.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310162831.htm 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 ScienceDaily.com European Commission proposals for advancing post-Copenhagen climate talks, launched today, were welcomed by Oxfam International. However the international agency said that while the EC had thrown a spotlight on emissions reduction loopholes in the Copenhagen Accord - the political agreement brokered at the UN Climate Summit in December - it had ignored major loopholes on climate finance. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100622.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100622.html 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/lHiePszEuYM/idUSTRE62833H20100310 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/lHiePszEuYM/idUSTRE62833H20100310 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt wants visitors to discover its Mediterranean coast at a marine reserve being established near the border with Libya, the government said Tuesday. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/bSE2BIvgNPY/idUSTRE62834M20100309 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/bSE2BIvgNPY/idUSTRE62834M20100309 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 Reuters