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Nature 462, 158 (12 November 2009) | doi:10.1038/462158c; Published online 11 November 2009

Open Innovation Challenges

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Many types of action are required to tackle climate change

Mike Hulme1

  1. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
    Email: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk

Sanjay Khanna's survey of climate-campaign activities (Nature 461, 1058–1059; 2009) implies that the arts and advertising ought to be helping to bring into being a "worldwide consensus for action". But the point is not to engineer a global consensus for action, as though the 'action' that is being sought is somehow self-evident, unambiguous and uncontested.