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the politics of climate change

World leaders say climate change is one of the most serious threats facing humanity. Are they right? If they are, who is going to do what about it? Who will benefit and who will pay? openDemocracy invites you to take part in one of the hottest debates of our times.

A massive retreat of glaciers in the South Atlantic signals an emerging climate regime  
A new climate-change project lacks the political focus that the scale of the problem now demands
The global community must recognise the dangers climate change poses to democracy
A coherent focus on low-carbon technology is the missing ingredient in climate-change plans
The tentacles of political power and corruption are recoiling themselves around a divided city
The route to global climate-change action lies through creative and tough consensus-building
The climate crisis requires radical energy choices. In Europe, the opposite is happening
The "swine flu" epidemic has a special resonance in a city of ghosts and catastrophes
A fusion of land and climate crises is consuming the planet. The G20 summit in London won't help
Where will the Republican Party go in the age of Barack Obama? Watch Louisiana's political swamps
The margins of the climate-change conference in Poland are where the action is 
“I see myself standing at the cusp of something wonderful”. A New Orleans election-day diary
What impact will the global economic downturn have on arguments about climate change?
Three crises - financial, democratic and climatic - are connected. We must see how, and act
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Three years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is buffeted by a new storm. Jim Gabour stays
"With that mindset we go on." Life - and a short story - after the hurricane
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The post-summit headlines conceal the G8's retreat from leadership in climate policy
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Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Christian missionaries don't go together
Climate change offers benefits as well as costs
A planetary crisis calls for cool thinking and shared action towards a global deal
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The disturbing effects of Indonesia's biofuel boom
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