Greenhouse gases have yet again reached a new record high leading perhaps to the hottest January on record. With the outlines of climate science firmly established, there are long past due initiatives emerging to accelerate international processes which have until now only yielded the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [search], the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [search] scientific processes and the much maligned and underperforming Kyoto Protocol [search]. There are emerging from multiple channels - including pressure by Ecological Internet and thousands of other truly grassroots efforts - initatives to accelerate talks; a so called climate summit and a new UN environmental body - to move forward with proposals that will avert global climate disaster by bringing the United States and China into a regime of mandatory emissions caps, as well as establish a global cap and trade system. The so called G8+5 Climate Change Dialogue recently met [more | more2] and agreed in DC that developing countries are going to have to face some sort of caps as well, and that a global carbon market to cap and trade emissions is needed.