UNEP’s International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management has published a new report, "Towards sustainable production and use of resources: Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production: Priority Products and Materials". The report looks at the impacts of different economic activities on the environment and its key findings are as follows: Agriculture and food consumption are identified as one of the most important drivers of environmental pressures, especially habitat change, climate change, water use and toxic emissions.

Reuters reports that Indonesia's annual oil palm expansion may halve to 50,000 hectares from 2009 levels once a $1 billion climate change deal with Norway comes into effect next year. The government has promised land swaps for cancelling some forest concessions.

The Australia-based environmental consultancy E3 International have published a report of and presentations from a workshop they held recently on soil carbon sequestration. The presentations and discussions covered the following issues: Potential of soil carbon and factors impacting on soil carbon The extent of our understanding of the potential to increase soil carbon under different practices, and sequestration rates; consideration of the role of other nutrients and water as well as the role of innovation and new technologies

A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identifies three steps that major greenhouse gas emitting countries should take so that global temperature rise does not exceed a rise of 2⁰C.