TORN flesh is easy to put back together with stitches, but when bone breaks, repairs are nowhere near as simple. Bones with fractures that run in a straight line can often be placed back in their proper alignment and set in a cast to heal. Compound fractures, however

The attractions of a piecemeal approach to global warming

How the world divides on a global deal

BEYOND the planet-saving rhetoric, the argument at Copenhagen and beyond will be about emissions levels and money. On both, large gaps need to be closed for a deal to be reached. The main gap on emissions levels is between America and the rest of the world. The main gap on money is between the developed and the developing worlds.

China sees opportunities as well as dangers in climate change

America struggles with climate-change legislation

Some mitigation policies are effective, some are efficient, and some are neither

Why investors have been deserting clean energy

What economists have to say about mitigating climate change

So far the effort to tackle global warming has achieved little. Copenhagen offers the chance to do better, says Emma Duncan (interviewed here)

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