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Meeting agreed targets for the decarbonization of Europe's energy sector is a tall order, but progress is being made — Sonja van Renssen reports.

With expertise in coastal resources and an interdisciplinary background in marine biology and social science, Tim Daw joined a team of natural and social scientists to study how coastal communities are affected by the impacts of climate change on coral reefs.

As Australia anticipates its carbon tax, Anna Petherick contends that of the world's dirtiest economies, this nation is leading the way in the design of policies to price emissions.

Regardless of what happened at the Durban climate summit, immediate action is required on climate change, and poor nations must be treated fairly.

Resettlement of people living on islands in anticipation of climate impacts risks maladaptation, but some forms of population movement carry fewer risks and larger rewards in terms of adapting to climate change.

Methods for assessing the carbon footprints of products can favour low- over high-yielding agricultural systems when carbon removals are included.

Temporary carbon-sequestration and carbon-storage projects help offset fossil-fuel carbon emissions, but how effective are they?

It is responsible for the fastest-growing and second-largest source of carbon emissions, so can transport clean up its act? Europe is leading the charge on tackling the problem.

Composer and string musician, turned award-winning environmentalist, Aubrey Meyer tells Nature Climate Change why he is campaigning for countries to adopt his 'contraction and convergence' model of global development to avoid dangerous climate change.