Copenhagen was supposed to be the last chance for humanity on an assumption that emissions in the future would continue to grow as they have in the past. But what if the future is one of contraction and disorganisation anyway?
As Copenhagen stutters to its conclusion, our attention should return again to what individual countries can do to tackle climate change absent a global deal sufficient to the problem. Most
Why and how we should lead the way
The only certainty at Copenhagen is failure - either a bad deal or no deal. This is because of the fundamental disconnect between those affected by climate change and those
The media storm over the hacked CRU e-mails shows that staying above the mud fight is a forlorn hope
It is day six of the 'scandal' over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in
Simon Zadek argued that failure at Copenhagen means we must seek unilateral national deals. chinadialogue.net, the environment site that spun out of openDemocracy in 2007, asked its authors Martin Bunzl, Malini Mehra, Wang Tao and Gao Feng to respond
Copenhagen will not deliver the right global deal. It is time for nations to save us from climate catastrophe.