Policy

When money grows on trees - pp101 - 103

Mark Schrope

Protecting forests offers a quick and cost-effective way of reducing emissions, but agreeing a means to do so won't be easy. Mark Schrope reports.

Published online: 13 August 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.78

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The war against warming

Keith Kloor

Military and intelligence experts become increasingly focused on the "climate security" threat. Keith Kloor reports.

Published online: 19 November 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.120

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Small pacts are no big deal - p123

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 03 November 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.113

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Must-reads for Copenhagen - pp120 - 122

Mike Hulme, Tony Juniper, Mark Lynas, Oliver Morton, Ron Oxburgh, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Roger Pielke, Jr, Andrew Revkin & Joseph Romm

At the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen this December, talk will turn to scientific, political and economic issues with a global reach and a long history — not easy to pick up from the daily news. We asked select experts on climate change what books we should be reading ahead of the big event.

Published online: 02 October 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.102

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India makes headway on climate policy - p107

Anna Barnett

Last week, India laid out an ambitious plan for solar energy. Anna Barnett looks at how far it will go in reducing the country's carbon footprint.

Published online: 13 August 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.79

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Interview: Dieter Helm - p108

Anna Barnett

Oxford economist Dieter Helm co-edits a new book, The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, due out next month. Anna Barnett caught up with him in London to get his take on a long-term strategy for reducing emissions.

Published online: 03 September 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.86

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Asking the impossible - p76

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 01 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.64

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A third way - p85

Roger A. Pielke

New philosophies on climate policy are well and good, but to be meaningful they must be translated into concrete policy options.

Published online: 18 June 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.61

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Halfway to Copenhagen, no way to 2 °C - pp81 - 83

Joeri Rogelj, Bill Hare, Julia Nabel, Kirsten Macey, Michiel Schaeffer, Kathleen Markmann & Malte Meinshausen

National targets give virtually no chance of constraining warming to 2 °C and no chance of protecting coral reefs.

Published online: 11 June 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.57

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A place at the table? - pp68 - 70

Nicholas Dulvy & Edward Allison

An oft-forgotten source of food security and livelihoods, fisheries must be included in ongoing discussions of how the world's most vulnerable can adapt to climate change.

Published online: 28 May 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.52

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Best practice for biochar - p65

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 02 June 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.53

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The big picture - p71

William F. Hewitt

Words matter as much as images in communicating climate change.

Published online: 14 May 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.45

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Stern advice for Copenhagen - pp62 - 63

Frank Ackerman

In this new book, economist Nicholas Stern makes a sweeping proposal for a global climate deal.

Published online: 09 April 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.34

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Sufficient certainty - p53

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 05 May 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.42

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Report calls for shift in climate research - pp44 - 45

Mark Schrope

Federal agencies must make climate research more applicable to end-users, says the US National Research Council. Mark Schrope reports.

Published online: 26 March 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.29

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No laughing matter - p40

Frank Ackerman

Published online: 03 March 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.21

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Climate economics for the masses - pp22 - 23

Yoram Bauman

A layman's guide to climate economics leaves the average reader unable to distinguish mainstream theory from heterodoxy.

Published online: 15 January 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.4

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Thinking globally, acting locally - p13

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 03 February 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.11

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Living on the land - p98

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 04 September 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.87

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Crunch time for the Clean Development Mechanism? - p64

Anna Barnett

Anna Barnett reports on the recent dip in projects entering the UN emissions-offsetting programme.

Published online: 16 April 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.36

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Interview: Katherine Richardson - pp51 - 52

Olive Heffernan

A climate congress in March aims to update the assessment of global warming. Olive Heffernan talks to the meeting's chair about the tasks that lie ahead.

Published online: 05 March 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.25

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Interview: Andrew Gouldson - pp26 - 27

Anna Barnett

The new Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and the University of Leeds launches 27 January. Andrew Gouldson — who will co-direct the centre with Judith Rees, under chairman Lord Nicholas Stern — argues that researchers should be zooming in on regional change and talking to local stakeholders while the world makes the push for a global climate deal. Interview by Anna Barnett.

Published online: 22 January 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.7

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