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Physicist; climate and energy innovator.

Most city councils are still struggling to raise environmental standards for buildings.

The past five years have been an interesting time for the climate and for climate policy. But how has climate science evolved since Nature Climate Change first launched?

Free trade agreements are becoming greener, and yet encouraging fossil fuel business.

Builder of the global carbon budget.

Through modern media, Africa is now in people's living rooms and offices, so Africans need to report their experience of climate change.

Colombia's sustainable cattle ranching programme restores degraded land while boosting livestock production and making farmland more resilient to climate change.

A more democratic world, and a world that responds effectively to the challenges of climate change, are common aims of the international community. But are they mutually compatible?

When the price of oil jumps, logic dictates that people should rush to invest in renewables. But it's not so simple.

Predicting abrupt changes in ecological systems could help stave off some of the worst impacts of climate change. But how close are we to foreseeing tipping points?

As regulatory efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions stall, many are seeking legal routes to achieve justice on climate change.

Scientific observations made by everyday people are forming an increasingly valuable resource for scientists who research global change. But how reliable is citizen science?

Could radical innovation by green entrepreneurs deliver a techno-fix for the climate?

How much of an influence are our peers when it comes to being green?

How will our choices shape the future? That's a question researchers are keen to answer, and with a new approach to how the climate community develops scenarios, they are coming that bit closer to answering it.

Climate scientists are under pressure to make their data — and their methods — more openly available, both to fellow scientists and the public. Now, open-access climate science is becoming easier than ever.

In 2002, the world's governments agreed to significantly slow the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Time is almost up, and by most accounts they've failed. Now that climate change is emerging as one of biodiversity's greatest threats, scientists are proposing new ways to tackle the crisis. Hannah Hoag reports.