Friday Linkfest #85

This week, in climate business and politics:

New analysis is criticizing Britain's carbon targets as "naively optimistic" and not nearly enough to prevent dangerous climate change.
China wants its export emissions to be exempted from a new climate treaty. Despite being the world's largest emitter, between 15 and 25% of China's carbon is due to the production of goods for export, which, they argue, are the responsibility of the consumer.
Maldives aims to be the first carbon neutral country by 2020. The nation has a big stake in limiting sea level rise, given the islands' vulnerability.
And a technological innovation holds promise for cleaning up shipping industry emissions - a patented method that removes carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and soot from ship exhausts.

And our regular feature, climate change wreaking havoc:

The Northeastern US coast will suffer world's biggest sea level rise, an extra 8 inches on top of the global 2 or 3 feet by the end of the century, courtesy of ocean currents. Better get moving...
A new report's strongly cautions that climate change needs to be considered in future decision making, rethinking basic assumptions in building, land use and planning, something so far largely overlooked.

Beavers, bears and three-eyed fish:

Beavers are beneficial for rivers and wildlife. After being all but wiped out in the UK, British conservationists and ecological advisers want to reintroduce them into the countryside. That is, if landowners stop being so dam difficult.
A 25 year old polar bear conservation agreement obliges the 5 Arctic states with polar bear populations to take action on climate change, the main threat to the bears. A meeting is taking place soon, but will it help?
Leatherback turtles are threatened with extinction because of the amount of plastic garbage floating in the oceans.
Animal populations near the Chernobyl disaster site are not doing so great, actually. A study has shown that the areas most affected by radiation are severely depleted in animal life, while deformed animals are unusually common.