Between the Broadsheets

Scientists are to dig up ice dating back more than 100,000 years in an attempt to shed light on how global warming will change the world over the next century. The ice, at the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, was laid down at a time when temperatures were 3C to 5C warmer than they are today - The Times

Switching public spending from “grey” projects building roads and expanding airports, to “green” schemes creating parks and allotments, would save billions of pounds, improve health, cut climate emissions and create jobs, say official advisers to the government. Natural England and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) say urban areas could be transformed into healthier, wealthier and much more pleasant places if green infrastructure received even a fraction of the investment allotted “grey” areas - The Guardian

A shake-up in the way the “boom and bust” carbon markets are working in Europe is being urged ahead of tomorrow’s auction of new emission certificates by the UK government. The Carbon Trust, which is sponsored by government money, and the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers argue that controls might have to be put in place to prevent the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) being discredited by a further collapse in prices, which have already slumped from £28 per tonne to just over £9 - The Guardian