‘Officials from the European Union, Brazil, China, France and the U.S. are trying to lay the groundwork to reinvigorate the next round of international climate negotiations later this year in Cancun, Mexico. Their agenda for the meeting that started today in Geneva includes a new climate fund, coordinating public financing and boosting private funding.’

via Climate Envoys Seek Consensus on $100 Million in Aid for Poorer Nations – Bloomberg.

‘Solar cells are intended to mimic the photosynthesis of plants — converting light into energy in the most efficient manner possible. But what other characteristics of plants could be handy for the renewable energy sector to mimic? How about the self-assembly of chloroplast, the component of plants that do all the vital photosynthesis.’

via MIT Creates Self-Assembling Solar Cells That Repair Themselves : TreeHugger.

‘Reuters – The world’s low-carbon energy market is likely to treble by 2020, HSBC analysts forecast on Monday, saying that rising concerns about resource scarcity would support broad consensus on the threat of climate change.’

via Low-carbon market to treble by 2020: HSBC | Reuters.

‘Reuters – Germany’s coal imports look set to increase until at least the middle of the decade, despite carbon pollution concerns and anti-coal lobbying that has succeeded in stopping many new coal-fired projects.’

via Analysis: German coal imports to rise despite green lobbying | Reuters.

‘BETHESDA, Md. — A competition between nuclear waste dumps has pulled the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into an unusual reconsideration of its rules to allow moderately radioactive materials to be diluted into a milder category that is easier to bury.’

via Nuclear Dumps Argue Over Diluting Waste for Burial – NYTimes.com.