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Climate Policy

What's Happening at the Copenhagen Climate Summit?

With a deadline for a UN climate treaty imminent, 2009 could become the most important year for climate change since the Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997. Will a successor to Kyoto emerge from Copenhagen in December?

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The Invisible Hand of Climate Change

G8 governments are not doing enough to fight climate change. Hans-Jörg Naumer of Allianz Global Investors explains how market forces could help.

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The Past and Future of the Kyoto Protocol

More than a decade after a UN summit in Kyoto spawned the famous protocol on reducing greenhouse gases, nations try again to devise a follow-up regime. What has changed?

Climate Ranking 2009

Mankind must confront climate change decisively, but overall, action is “insufficient”, report the 2009 G8 Climate Scorecards. See how your country is doing.

Global Warming - A Timeline

A UN conference in Copenhagen in December is due to agree a new pact to combat global warming after mounting evidence that human activity is disrupting the climate. The following is a timeline of the discovery of global warming.

A RECIPE for Climate Action

Ten things we have to do by 2050 to save our climate.

Climate Policy Interviews

The Price of Progress

Emissions from emerging nations like China and India are rising fast. How are they responding?