Energy-saving light bulbs promoted in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s economy has been growing at such a fast pace over the past five years that there are concerns the nation is using too much energy.

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Plane speaking. Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, is these days possessed of one great idea. Climate change, and how to avert it, consumes him. [News Source]

Canada faces lawsuit over failure to meet Kyoto commitment. Environmentalists threatened Tuesday to sue Canada to force cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions agreed under the Kyoto Protocol, despite officials' claims the target cannot be achieved. [News Source]

Australia says Kyoto a symbolic failure. Australia said on Wednesday it would use new technologies to make fossil-fuels cleaner and tackle climate change, but continued to reject the Kyoto Protocol. [News Source]

Canada climate-change stand spurs election talk. Canada's minority Conservative government could face a confidence motion over its climate-change policy this week but political strategists said it was unlikely the country would be thrown into a quick election over the issue. [News Source]

Qantas plan to offset its carbon emissions. Qantas Airlines is designing a program to allow passengers to offset the carbon emissions from their flights. [News Source]

City casts its cold eye on global warming. Sir Nicholas Stern could not have been clearer: there will be winners and losers in the shift to a low-carbon economy. [News Source]

Global warming could cool oil prices in long run: analysts. Climate change, the subject of a key independent report published this week, could push oil prices lower in the long term as warmer air reduces demand for heating fuel, analysts said on Tuesday. [News Source]

British report backs more carbon trading. Commissioned by Britain's government, an economist's report on climate change calls for the global expansion of the European Emissions Trading Scheme. [News Source]

$60m for climate projects announced. Prime Minister John Howard today announced $60 million in funding on projects to help cut greenhouse emissions, including almost $20 million for clean coal technology and $11 million for coal mining. [News Source]

Persistent dead zone off Oregon coast linked to global warming. A recent United Nations report listed 200 dead zones around the world. Almost all of them are caused by fertilizer and pollution running down rivers to feed huge algae blooms. [News Source]