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the politics of climate changeWorld 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.
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
An everyday post-Katrina epic is tinged with the extra pain of violation and betrayal
Three years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is buffeted by a new storm. Jim Gabour stays
A young governor might have been John McCain’s running-mate. Louisiana's voters had other ideas
The post-summit headlines conceal the G8's retreat from leadership in climate policy
Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Christian missionaries don't go together
A planetary crisis calls for cool thinking and shared action towards a global deal
Al Gore's award is a distraction. The real
debate is about ourselves
A Choctaw outrider, soul of his biker tribe, a wanted man - it can only be Charlie
The state protects banks. Can it mend the planet too?
The disturbing effects of Indonesia's biofuel boom
The raging forest fires are both environmental disaster and political scandal
A crawfish-loving angel of mercy in Manolo Blahnik stilettos walks into Jim Gabour's life
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