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With climate change placing increasing pressure on environmental resources, it is now being viewed as a threat to national security. Amanda Leigh Haag reports.
Companies worldwide are now competing to cut their carbon emissions, but is this trend one of environmental concern, hard-headed business or careful PR? Kurt Kleiner investigates.
As discussions get underway over a global agreement to slash CO2 emissions beyond 2012, Amanda Leigh Haag looks at how the Kyoto Protocol has fared and the issues that will shape its successor.