Pollution

BARRIE MAGUIRE

JOHN OVERMYER

DEAN ROHRER

MARGARET SCOTT

TIM BRINTON

PEDRO MOLINA

Trading in 'cap and trade'

By Tim Flannery
The international climate negotiations that have been grinding on for years may have crossed a Rubicon of sorts. That's because a new model of engagement for some nations is receiving wide attention. It's shorthanded as "national schedules," and it could get incorporated into the next world climate treaty -- the one that replaces the Kyoto Protocol -- to be signed in Copenhagen in December. (read more)