Environment / Climate Change

David Ransom examines the impact so far on the Majority World.

Danny Chivers surveys the options for the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, and asks if they can deliver climate justice.

Activists Nnimmo Bassey and Mel Evans report from the frontline.

Patrick Bond foresees a rocky future for carbon trading.

Sunita Narain looks to the environmentalism of the poor for answers.

Yang Ailun and David Spratt on why politicians are failing.

Social movements around the world are calling for urgent and radical action, broadly based on four main principles.

Stopping climate change will involve reversing some fundamental injustices, argues Jess Worth.

The increase in global food prices may have temporarily stalled but food is expected to remain at record price levels for the foreseeable future. Industrial agriculture’s chickens have come home to roost. But the price is being paid not by agribusiness and food retailers but by small farmers whose income remains low, and by the millions being pushed into malnutrition.

Chris Brazier makes the case for a green and fair diet.

Science is coming up with ever more extraordinary proposals for combating climate change, from laying white plastic over deserts to locking up carbon dioxide in the oceans or shooting it into space. Should we take any of this seriously?

To save Yasuní, the oil must stay in the ground.

Calm the panic or delay the inevitable?

Is Ecuador’s bold proposal not to exploit a billion barrels of oil in the Yasuní National Park a serious option for combating climate change? If so, the world is going to have to move fast, warns Vanessa Baird.