“The agreements will reduce Indonesia’s debt payments to the United States by nearly $30 million over the next eight years. In return, the Government of Indonesia has committed these funds to support grants to protect and restore the country’s tropical forests.”

The US Department of State announces a ‘debt-for-trees’ deal with Indonesia.

“Toyota’s patent-filing strategy has made it far too risky to copy the Prius without Toyota’s blessing.”

Justin Blows, patent attorney at Griffith Hack Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys in Australia, says the car company holds all the cards in the race to develop and sell hybrid cars (WSJ).

“The climate change is happening, it’s coming quicker and earlier than we thought and our way of living is just not sustainable.”

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt says the European Union should be better, faster and stronger in tackling climate change (BBC).

“We’re to blame — we should have done this earlier but everything was done in a hurry.”

K. Sankar, a Wildlife Institute of India tiger expert, tells the Times that three Bengal tigers placed in an empty reserve in Rajasthan last year could be siblings, meaning inbreeding problems in the long term.