Britain's first clean coal plant will miss a government deadline and its first new nuclear plant will not come on line before 2020, reflecting global climate policy uncertainty, a utility chief said on Thursday.

New Zealand needs a sweeping emissions trading scheme to cover all sectors and greenhouse gases besides balancing economic and environmental concerns, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith said on Thursday.

South Korea's Environment Minister Maanee Lee said on Thursday a U.N. meeting in Copenhagen may not reach an agreement, although Asia's fourth-largest economy will play a "bridging" role between developed and developing nations.

Climate talks could draw on global recovery spending to smooth a deal in Copenhagen in December to replace the Kyoto Protocol, said Nick Robins, head of HSBC's climate change research center.

HSBC analysts estimate the green portion of a $3.1 trillion fiscal stimulus at about $512 billion.

The European Union has scaled back plans to give billions of euros to poor countries to persuade them to help battle climate change, a draft document shows.

Funding from rich nations to the developing world has emerged as the main stumbling block to progress in climate negotiations ahead of international talks in Copenhagen in December.

When, years from now, the errors and follies of the economics profession are disdainfully listed, the object of greatest derision will not be the finance theorists for whom efficient and complete markets were as real as

The president of the Maldives said on Monday he plans a $3-a-day green tax for all tourists at its popular island resorts to help pay for the country

CLIMATE change poses a potential threat to the whole living world. Many species of animals have already been endangered by its ugly claws. The developing countries in particular are the worst sufferers of the effect of climate change.

Japan

Japan's prime minister-elect said on Monday he will forge ahead with a tough 25 percent cut in emissions by 2020, despite growing opposition from industry which says the target will hurt the world's No. 2 economy.

But Yukio Hatoyama added that the target, more ambitious than the outgoing government's, was premised on a deal on ambitious goals being agreed by major nations.