On the climate talks in Poznan:

• Delegates work to resolve differences over how to protect the world's forests and press industrial countries to drastically reduce their carbon emissions.
• Delegates divided over whether carbon capture and storage is a solution to global warming.
• Russia may not join global deal to fight global warming.
• Al Gore tells delegates that new targets are needed to fight global warming.  
• Mexico pledges to halve greenhouse gas emissions from 2002 by 2050.
• Read Switchboard updates on the talks here.

In other news:

• Obama picks seasoned regulators for top environmental posts. NRDC's Frances Beinecke writes about his choices here.
• NRDC's Rob Perks blasts the coal industry's "Clean Coal Carolers" (see also Get Energy Smart, Think Progress, Treehugger and Huffington Post).
• Obama pledges to make schools and public buildings more energy efficient.
• Al Gore will host a green inaugural ball.
• Find out how to get a locally-grown Christmas tree on Sustainablog.
• Squirrels are starving as acorns disappear in several Mid-Atlantic states.
• Rising temperatures may unleash vast deposits of undersea methane.
• Treehugger interviews Frances Beinecke in a post about NRDC's partnership with Planet Green.
• Methane capture, a "sin tax" on pork and beef and other potential solutions may help reduce farm emissions.
• Andrew Revkin writes about the need to rebuild the country's intellectual infrastructure.
• The Daily Green posted a video by Zaproot about eating meat from cloned animals.
• GreenerBuildings.com features a podcast of NRDC alumnus Rob Watson talking about the 2008 Green Building Impact Report.
• The NY Times reports on how the recession has decimated the market for recyclable materials, sending some of it to landfills. Green Inc. shares a heartwarming story about a second-grade class who refused to stop recycling. NRDC's Phil Gutis wrote a related post here.
• Could waste coffee grounds be the next great biofuel?
• Los Angeles wants to add 1.3 gigawatts of solar power by 2020.