the politics of climate change: all articles

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.
Monday 12th October

After glaciers: a new climate world

Øyvind Paasche, 12 October 2009
A massive retreat of glaciers in the South Atlantic signals an emerging climate regime  
Wednesday 16th September

10:10 and the politics of climate change

Andrew Dobson, 16 September 2009
A new climate-change project lacks the political focus that the scale of the problem now demands
Tuesday 15th September

International Democracy Day: work to do

Halina Ward and John Elkington, 15 September 2009
The global community must recognise the dangers climate change poses to democracy
Wednesday 8th July

The G8 and climate change: towards Copenhagen

Andrew Pendleton, 8 July 2009
A coherent focus on low-carbon technology is the missing ingredient in climate-change plans
Monday 29th June

New Orleans's sub-heavenly host

Jim Gabour, 29 June 2009
The tentacles of political power and corruption are recoiling themselves around a divided city
Monday 15th June

The politics of climate change

Simon Maxwell, 15 June 2009
The route to global climate-change action lies through creative and tough consensus-building
Monday 11th May

Climate change: a failure of leadership

Paul Rogers, 11 May 2009
The climate crisis requires radical energy choices. In Europe, the opposite is happening
Tuesday 5th May

The plague spin of New Orleans

Jim Gabour, 5 May 2009
The "swine flu" epidemic has a special resonance in a city of ghosts and catastrophes
Wednesday 25th March

The G20’s missing voice

25 March 2009
A fusion of land and climate crises is consuming the planet. The G20 summit in London won't help
Thursday 8th January

Three regular guys

Jim Gabour, 8 January 2009
Where will the Republican Party go in the age of Barack Obama? Watch Louisiana's political swamps
Thursday 11th December

Climate change futures: postcard from Poznan

Camilla Toulmin, 11 December 2008
The margins of the climate-change conference in Poland are where the action is 
Monday 3rd November

Living the American movie

Jim Gabour, 3 November 2008
“I see myself standing at the cusp of something wonderful”. A New Orleans election-day diary
Saturday 1st November

Amid the financial storm: redirecting climate change

Mike Hulme, 1 November 2008
What impact will the global economic downturn have on arguments about climate change?
Friday 17th October

Finance, politics, climate: three crises in one

Mark Lee and John Elkington, 17 October 2008

Three crises - financial, democratic and climatic - are connected. We must see how, and act

Wednesday 8th October

Loot

Jim Gabour, 8 October 2008

An everyday post-Katrina epic is tinged with the extra pain of violation and betrayal 

Monday 1st September

Living with Gustav

Jim Gabour, 1 September 2008
Three years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is buffeted by a new storm. Jim Gabour stays
Sunday 24th August

Hardware madness

Jim Gabour, 24 August 2008
"With that mindset we go on." Life - and a short story - after the hurricane
Wednesday 23rd July

Ruling Louisiana

Jim Gabour, 23 July 2008
A young governor might have been John McCain’s running-mate. Louisiana's voters had other ideas
Thursday 17th July

The global politics of climate-change: after the G8

Andrew Pendleton, 17 July 2008
The post-summit headlines conceal the G8's retreat from leadership in climate policy
Wednesday 30th April

Show me some ID, so I can kill you

Jim Gabour, 30 April 2008

Show me some ID, so I can kill you. Too bad if you're the wrong guy  

 

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