The gap between political rhetoric and scientific reality on climate change is growing, complain scientists at the UN climate conference in Poland.

Brief Communications Arising : Snowball prevention questioned Arising from: W. R. Peltier, Y. Liu & J. W. Crowley Nature 450, 813

The Clean Development Mechanism must be amended. What shape should it take? The Clean Development Mechanism (cdm) is up for review and there are several proposals to reform the process. The mechanism has always been under severe criticism, since its inception, on various accounts, ranging from its philosophical principles to its administration. The mechanism was created to help

  View image Climate change is linked to emissions, in turn to economic growth. Limiting emissions is then about limiting growth. Thus, sharing growth between nations has been the main bugbear. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change expressed the principle of equity by enjoining countries to take action based on common

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At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good

A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in Poznan. By Chandra Bhushan, Mario D