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Securing Britain's energy

Securing Britain's energy

  • By Nick Clegg
  • 21 May 2008

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warns Gordon Brown not to go ahead with a new generation of coal power plants, starting with Kingsnorth, and says our future must be low carbon

Climate change - are we doing enough?

  • By Jax Jacobsen
  • 23 April 2008

Are plans to cut carbon emissions by 60 per cent enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change?

Carbon rationing: a modern morality tale

Carbon rationing: a modern morality tale

  • By Peter Wilby
  • 26 March 2007

Controlling climate change will require personal sacrifice, fairness and trust. Yet successive governments have insisted on the individual's right to choose. This large bird is coming home to roost

Green colonials

  • By Sue Branford and Jan Rocha
  • 13 November 2006

An international project to buy large parts of the Amazon rainforest has run up against stiff resistance from indigenous groups. Sue Branford and Jan Rocha report from Brazil

Why we must ration the future

  • By Mark Lynas
  • 23 October 2006

You can't bargain with the planet because it doesn't care whether or not targets are "politically acceptable". So unless we secure a deal determining how much carbon each nation and each person can emit, we simply will not survive

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