Poland has voiced dismay after the European Court of Justice rejected a legal complaint it made about the EU's mechanism for cutting carbon emissions.

BBC: EU court rebuffs Poland over CO2 emissions

The politicians are leaving all the details, including who will do the cutting, how the trading mechanism will work and what the penalties for failure will be, up to the agency that enforces the state's existing air-pollution standards.

ECONOMIST: Going deeper green

Rich states meet emissions targets by paying poor countries to do the cutting, under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism.

ECONOMIST: The Copenhagen climate talks

Yet they lack any mechanism to reduce the emissions from cutting and burning the valuable tropical forests of developing countries.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Seeing the carbon for the trees

The touch system on the Instinct is more like that on an ancient ATM than a cutting-edge gadget, even though it has a gimmicky feedback mechanism that gives you a tiny vibration-jolt when you press an icon.

WSJ: Instinct Doesn't Ring True as iPhone Clone