Reuters UK

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged developed countries not to neglect climate change as they tend to a global economic slowdown and called on rich nations to help poor countries prone to global warming.

The Globe and Mail

UN scientists say they expect a “normal” ozone hole this year.

Geir Braathen of the World Meteorological Organization says it is still too early to say for sure how big the ozone hole will be over Antarctica.

He told reporters in Geneva on Friday, however, that it is likely to be smaller than the very large hole of 2006 but more pronounced than last year’s relatively small hole.

CBC News

Hundreds of negotiators are gathering in Ghana’s capital to resume talks on a climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires.

The weeklong conference began Thursday in Accra, with more than 1,000 delegates in attendance.

Talks in the city located in Ghana’s south will focus on pushing developing countries to join the fight against rising greenhouse gas emissions, but come at a difficult time, when many of the world’s poor are more concerned with the cost of food and fuel.

Market Watch

Going clean and green means more to Rocio Garcia, a 19-year-old girl from the Dominican Republic supported by Children International, a U.S.-based humanitarian organization. River clean-up and tree-planting campaigns have propelled the teen from a slum outside Santo Domingo to the United States to attend International Youth Day on August 12 at the United Nations.

The New York Times

To set an example in the effort to curb energy use that contributes to global warming, the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has approved a one-month pilot project to raise the thermostat throughout much of the landmark building to 77 degrees from 72 degrees.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization released a report stating that the Middle East and North Africa will experience food security threats due to climate-induced agricultural losses.

Reuters

The world’s major cities are also among the planet’s worst polluters but they have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading environmental consultancy said on Monday.

Times Online

Climate change is forcing growing numbers of people in the developing world to flee their homes and seek refuge abroad, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned today.

Associated Press

The United Nations environment agency unveiled a new atlas Tuesday that shows what the agency says are the dramatic effects of climate change on Africa.

BBC News

Negotiators from more than 172 countries are meeting in Bonn to hammer out a deal that may culminate in a new global climate agreement. In this week’s Green Room, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer argues that negotiators want to see more of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, not less.