Policy

Optional offsetting - pp8 - 9

Matthew Lockwood

Will voluntary carbon markets genuinely tackle climate change or could they encourage further emissions?

Published online: 07 June 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.11

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Seeing the wood for the trees - pp91

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 29 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.69

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Tipping the scales - pp97 - 98

Timothy M. Lenton & Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

International climate policy needs to induce a socioeconomic tipping to a low or no-carbon economy if we are to avoid climate change tipping points.

Published online: 22 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.65

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Australia warms to climate change - pp90

Emma Marris

Published online: 18 October 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.62

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Playing by a different set of rules - pp68 - 70

Florida's climate change plan is the latest in a wave of state strategies to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. Mark Schrope asks whether stand-alone efforts could substitute or drive federal action in the US.

doi:10.1038/climate.2007.54

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Consensus on cause, but not on cuts - pp49

Olive Heffernan

doi:10.1038/climate.2007.48

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Soft solutions fall short - pp17

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 27 June 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.25

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Post-Kyoto pact: shaping the successor - pp12 - 15

Amanda Leigh Haag

As discussions get underway over a global agreement to slash CO2 emissions beyond 2012, Amanda Leigh Haag looks at how the Kyoto Protocol has fared and the issues that will shape its successor.

Published online: 07 June 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.12

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Averting disaster: at what cost? - pp6 - 7

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Avoiding dangerous climate change will require considerable global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A daunting challenge, but one that is practically and economically achievable, argues Jeffrey D. Sachs.

Published online: 07 June 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.3

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Washington Watch - pp16

Kevin Vranes

This month, Kevin Vranes at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research in Boulder, Colorado, reviews recent climate legislation passing through US Congress.

Published online: 07 June 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.13

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A push for political will - pp79

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 22 October 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.60

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Radical reductions - pp26 - 27

William Connolley

We need to cut fossil fuel use in the developed world by 90% to stop dangerous climate change, argues George Monbiot.

Published online: 18 June 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.19

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