The Maldivian President is asking nations most vulnerable to climate change to take the lead in reducing global warming. The leader of a country threatened by rising sea levels slammed rich countries at a two-day conference for doing too little to prevent climate change. Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed says countries like his that are most [...]

A survey of 40 firms suggests that there’s money to be made fighting climate change The public discourse on climate change has tended to frame the issue as a tradeoff between development and greening; as a choice between generating wealth and creating a less carbon-intensive environment. With United Nations talks in Copenhagen aimed at negotiating [...]

Let’s have a look at some of the key players to the Copenhagen COP15 conference in December this year. Key to the whole show is UN climate chief Yvo de Boer. Here is an interview with Mr de Boer and George Monbiot, enviromental campaigner, author of Heat and regular Guardian columnist on the environment. George [...]