Climate showdown in Durban

The seventeenth meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change begins on 28 November in Durban, South Africa, and marks a crucial moment for negotiations on how to limit global warming. Commitments made under the Kyoto Protocol are set to expire next year - here, Nature follows the efforts to shape a post-Kyoto world.

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Editorials

  • Climate change

    Negotiations in Durban over greenhouse-gas emissions should not try to revive Kyoto.

    Nature 479, 267-268 ( )

  • More in Montreal

    Momentum builds for ozone treaty to take on greenhouse gases.

    Nature 479, 5-6 ( )

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Comment

  • Climate policy: Deadline 2015

    A summit meeting of heads of government is needed to strengthen global ambition on climate change – we should start preparing now, says Michael Jacobs.

    Nature 481, 137-138 ( )

  • Climate policy: Letting go of Kyoto

    A preoccupation with binding commitments blocks progress in climate-change negotiations. It is time to correct course, says Elliot Diringer.

    Nature 479, 291-292 ( )