Carbon Trading

Securing Britain's energy

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

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Climate change - are we doing enough?

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

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Carbon rationing: a modern morality tale

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

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Green colonials

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

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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