News

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  • End of the road for Copenhagen?
  • Expectations are dropping as December's UN climate talks get closer.
  • 10 November 2009
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  • Brazil mulls major climate action
  • If adopted, the move would put the country ahead of other developing nations on emissions curbs.
  • 2 November 2009
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  • Ozone protocol squares up to climate
  • Europeans back efforts to amend the Montreal Protocol to address global warming.
  • 28 October 2009

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Features

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  • Carbon trading: How to save a forest
  • Projects in Madagascar could provide a model for stemming deforestation. But first these efforts must deal with the poverty and political upheaval that threaten forests, reports Anjali Nayar.
  • 4 November 2009
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  • Climate: When the ice melts
  • Deep in the Himalayas, the disappearance of glaciers is threatening the kingdom of Bhutan. Anjali Nayar trekked through the mountains to see how the country is adapting to a warming world.
  • 22 October 2009
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  • Climate: Counting carbon in the Amazon
  • If the next climate treaty tackles deforestation, tropical nations will need to monitor the biomass of their forests. One ecologist has worked out a way to do that from the sky, finds Jeff Tollefson.
  • 22 October 2009

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Opinion

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  • EDITORIAL: Climate of compromise
  • The chances of a strong treaty emerging from the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen seem small, but recent progress offers hope.
  • 22 October 2009
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  • India pushes for common responsibility
  • Rajendra K. Pachauri says that India wants to be a constructive partner in Copenhagen negotiations on climate change. The country is taking domestic action even though it cannot accept mandatory emissions limits.
  • 22 October 2009
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  • China expects leadership from rich nations
  • Greater emissions cuts by developed nations are the starting point for a successful climate deal at Copenhagen in December says Jiahua Pan.
  • 22 October 2009

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Books & Arts

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  • Conveying the campaign message
  • The arts and advertising can galvanise public and political will in tackling global warming. But shared concern for human health is a better motivator than polar bears, finds Sanjay Khanna.
  • 22 October 2009
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  • Q&A: The science of persuasion
  • Psychologist Robert Gifford is co-author of a recent American Psychological Association report that examined the interface between psychology and climate change. He explains what makes people receptive and how to get messages about climate science across effectively.
  • 22 October 2009
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  • Climate books with clout
  • David Reay examines the evolution of books about global warming and highlights those that have had most influence on public perceptions.
  • 22 October 2009
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  • Q&A: Architect of a sustainable future
  • German architect Albert Speer Jr is a pioneer of sustainable building and city planning whose firm has designed ecological communities from Cologne in Germany to Shanghai in China. With the publication of a new book setting out his philosophy, he explains why we should take a more holistic approach to urban development.
  • 22 October 2009
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  • Must-reads for Copenhagen
  • 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.

Research

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  • LETTERS: Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2°C
  • More than 100 countries have adopted a global warming limit of 2°C or below (relative to pre-industrial levels) as a guiding principle for mitigation efforts to reduce climate change risks, impacts and damages.
  • 29 April 2009
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  • LETTERS: Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne
  • Global efforts to mitigate climate change are guided by projections of future temperatures1. But the eventual equilibrium global mean temperature associated with a given stabilization level of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations remains uncertain1, complicating the setting of stabilization targets to avoid potentially dangerous levels of global warming.
  • 29 April 2009

Audio / Video

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  • Madagascar's threatened forests audio slideshow
  • Anjali Nayar visited a pioneering project in Madagascar that could provide a model for stemming deforestation across the developing world.
  • 4 November 2009
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  • Bhutan audio slideshow
  • Anjali Nayer describes efforts in Bhutan to reduce the dangers caused by climate change.
  • 26 October 2009
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  • Podcast
  • Anjali Nayar talks about how Bhutan is adapting to a warming world and more on December's crucial UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.
  • 22 October 2009
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  • James Lovelock interview
  • In this exclusive video interview the father of Gaia theory enthuses about his upcoming space trip and sounds a final warning for our planet.
  • April 2009
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  • Nicholas Stern interview
  • Economist Nicholas Stern revisits his influential report on the economics of climate change, explains how the recession could help curb global warming and calls for 'the greatest collaboration the world has ever seen' to reduce global CO₂ emissions.
  • 30 April 2009

Elsewhere in Nature

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  • Barcelona climate summit
  • Nature reporter Jeff Tollefson's blogging from the United Nations negotiations held on 2-6 November 2009.
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  • Planetary Boundaries
  • A Nature special examines whether humanity must stay within defined limits for a range of essential, and interlinked, Earth-system processes to avoid catastrophic environmental change.
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  • Climate policy timeline
  • A timeline from Nature Reports Climate Change that shows milestones in international climate policy from 1972 to the present.
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  • Nature Reports Climate Change
  • News, features, opinion and analysis on climate change and what it means for policy, society and the economy.
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  • Climate feedback
  • A blog from the editors and reporters at Nature Publishing Group on climate science and its wider implications.
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  • The Great Beyond
  • Regular updates on progress towards a global climate deal on the Nature News blog.