Green news roundup: Rare birds, spying, and forest sell-off on hold

Climate change • Connie Hedegaard insists tougher carbon targets will boost European economy • Barack Obama 2012 budget provides $8bn for clean energy • Carbon Trust funding cut by 40% • 'Bonfire of the quangos' threatens climate change committee • China bids to ease drought with $1bn emergency water aid Activism • Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists • Juror in activists' trial hits out at absence of police tapes • Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks Multimedia • The world's rarest bird photo competition - in pictures • Week in wildlife – in pictures • Extreme exposure: photos from the harshest places on Earth – in pictures Ethical and green living • English forest sell-off put on hold • Should I wait for the feed-in tariff review before installing solar? • Growing Valentine's Day roses harming Kenya's ecological site • Helena Brett's innovation: charity-shop makeovers Best of the web • Ecologist: Could underwater nuclear stations be headed for the English channel? • Yale Environment 360: Warming Arctic brings invasion of southern species • BusinessGreen: Feed-in tariff review accused of demolishing investor confidence For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network . ...And finally • Will Carbon Nation succeed where An Inconvenient Truth failed? Meet the 'greenocons' who are the stars of a new climate change solutions film aimed at America's right