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Global warming: nothing to do with human action, an illusion, a minor irritant, a technical problem that can be managed by normal development, or the most serious threat to the world after nuclear war?

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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
Friday 21st August

The felling of bungalows, the building of Dhaka

Delwar Hussain, 21 August 2009
The frenetic urban growth of Bangladesh's capital forces its inhabitants into new ways of living

The hot, flat, insecure world: a governance test

Ruby Gropas, 21 August 2009
How humans manage the interplay of global warming and insecurity will define the century 
Thursday 20th August

Report on World 87

External Relations Authority, 20 August 2009
A neighbour's concern is the basis of a new document
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
Friday 12th June

Climate change's challenge to India

Mira Kamdar, 12 June 2009
The new Congress government must face the coming ecological catastrophe
Monday 18th May

The human brain is made for environmental complacency

Chris Goodall, 18 May 2009
Evolved biases that made sense long ago now threaten to make us wilfully ignorant of real threats
Thursday 30th April

Climate Change: politics v reality

30 April 2009
Anthony Giddens' new book The Politics of Climate Change manages the politics and ignores the challenge
Thursday 15th January

Climate change in 2009: the defining issue

Tom Burke, 15 January 2009
Climate change must be at the forefront of the international agenda in 2009
Monday 8th December

The "rights of nature"

Jessica Loudis, 8 December 2008
Ecuador's new leftist government is considering bestowing legal "rights" upon nature. What would Hannah Arendt think?
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?
Tuesday 28th October

Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal

Ann Pettifor, 28 October 2008

The pressures of debt, peak oil and climate change require a radical policy response 

Sunday 26th October

A politics of crisis: low-energy cosmopolitanism

David Hayes and Andrew Dobson, 26 October 2008
The financial breakdown is opening new fissures in the world's political crust
Monday 20th October

Europe’s politics of self - and others

Krzysztof Bobinski, 20 October 2008
Two crises - the financial crash and climate change - reveal two faces of Europe
Wednesday 23rd July

Ethiopia: the tears and the rains

Lyndall Stein, 23 July 2008
In a hard corner of southern Ethiopia, the multiple causes of the global food crisis converge
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
Tuesday 1st July

The world’s water future

Mike Muller, 1 July 2008
Drought, thirst, and land-hunger...a parched earth equals global environmental danger
Monday 2nd June

Valuing a single small life in the face of global disaster

Jim Gabour, 2 June 2008
A frail beating heart can also be a route to compassion in the world beyond
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