The UK’s National Trust announced that they are aiming to organize the largest green movement with millions of members in support of conservation efforts and in combating climate change.

The most recent report from the world’s top climate scientists is not overflowing with optimism: drought, disease, famine, smog-related deaths. “This is the story. This is the whole play. This is how it’s going to affect people. The science is one thing. This is how it affects me, you and the person next door,” says University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver.

The World Bank is planning a US$250 million fund to aid developing countries to stop deforestation in return for carbon credits. The plan has attracted international support and the World Bank will chose five countries to launch the pilot stage of the project to.

It has hardly escaped notice that the wealthy nations of the north unleashed the crisis of climate change, while the poor nations of the south will bear its most immediate consequences. What are the wealthy doing to mitigate the problems they’ve created for their southern nations? Not much.

At least the debate is not whether climate change is actually happening. Now we’re figuring where to spend the money to fight it.

Just as the chorus of anti-environmental and faux-environmental voices attacks the G8 meeting to look for a post-Kyoto agreement reaches a crescendo, a host of alternative solutions to intergovernmental treaties to cut CO2 emissions start to make Kyoto look not only feasible but inexpensive.