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  • Floods in Assam, India

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    Durban and the climate change deniers

    Praful Bidwai
    Praful Bidwai: A repeat of the failed Copenhagen summit is likely unless the global north is prepared to take its fair share of CO2 cuts
  • Mexican Foreign Secertary, Patricia Espi

    Head to head
    Is a global agreement the only way to tackle climate change?

    David King and Achim Steiner debate whether international climate treaties have become redundant
  • The pine forest at Bedgebury

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    The forest sell-off is not radical enough

    Eamonn Butler
  • Engineers fitting solar panels to a roof at Silvertown Solar Village, Docklands, London

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    Government's dithering over feed-in tariffs jeopardises renewables sector

    Huw Irranca-Davies
  • north sea gas

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    Gas prices will keep going up, but there are ways to keep the costs down

    Sam Laidlaw
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    Going undercover can have dramatic results

    Zoe Broughton
  • Australia carbon emission :  factory chimney at an industrial park in Sydney

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    The UK must own up to the full scale of its emissions problem

    Guy Shrubsole and Alex Randall
  • Tony Juniper

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    Why forest sell-off plans are not in the public interest

    Tony Juniper
  • Tar sands

    Green blog festival
    Tar sands are a blot on Canadian politics – as well as the landscape

    Felix von Geyer: The money to be made from Canada's tar sands has blinded its government to the risks to water, climate and the biosphere

  • A windfarm in Cornwall.

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    Windfarm nimbyism says no at a time when we need to say yes

    Maria McCaffery

    Maria McCaffery: Nimbyism neglects the demands of energy security, economic growth and climate change in favour of a narrow self interest

  • Conifer plantation

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    The real battle for our forests

    Mark Avery

    Mark Avery: What's important is public access, protection of wildlife and saving the right trees in the right places

  • Carbon Capture Longannet

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    The cost of climate policy uncertainty

    Frank Wolak

    Frank Wolak: Even a modest price for carbon would encourage investment in green jobs and reduce dependency on foreign oil imports

  • wind turbines

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    When it comes to windfarms, I don't feel bad about nimbyism

    Alexander Chancellor

    Alexander Chancellor: Whatever the government may say, wind turbines are not necessarily a good thing

  • Response
    We cannot allow London's 'super sewer' to devastate our communities

    Rosalind Dallas

    Response: Turning unique greenfield sports facilities into a huge building site is sheer folly, says Rosalind Dallas

  • Eskom's Kusile Power Station Construction

    Green blog festival
    South African energy is at a fork in the road

    Phillip de Wet: With a coal-fired past and a part-renewable, part-nuclear future, jobs and cost will determine the country's path
  • Andrew Simms

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    70 months and counting ...

    Andrew Simms
    Andrew Simms: Reckless practices in the banking and oil industries are tying us together in what Ban Ki-moon calls a 'global suicide pact'
  • Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill floats on the sea

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    BP attempts to clean up Gulf via Twitter

    Alex Hannaford

    Alex Hannaford: Should we be surprised that BP's tweets attempt to put a positive spin on the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill?

  • Terry Macalister

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    BP's massive loss does not excuse its high-risk strategy

    Terry Macalister
    Terry Macalister: BP's rush to chum up to Kremlin-controlled Rosneft is spirited – but it would be wise to focus on safer prospects closer to home
  • George Monbiot

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    Give me William the Conqueror's big society over David Cameron's any day

    George Monbiot

    George Monbiot: Coalition rhetoric evokes a public ownership of woodland lost centuries ago. The reality, however, is corporate tax breaks

  • Greenpeace protest in Cancun

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    Reheating the climate change story

    Jules Boykoff

    Jules Boykoff: The media have dropped climate change, with its tricky science. But cast in economic terms, it could recapture public interest

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