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As negotiators haggle in Copenhagen over the levels of financial assistance to be provided to less-industrialised nations, Anna Da Costa highlights the difference this money could make

Partnership between Brazil and Norway to prevent deforestation in the Amazon praised by US President Barack Obama

The EU's chief negotiator at Copenhagen, Artur Runge-Metzger, tells journalists that he expects the US to contribute at least $3.5 billion to the climate aid budget

US climate negotiator Todd Stern makes it quite clear to the COP15 delegates: no China, no deal...

In a stinging attack on developed nations, G77 leader Lumumba Di-Aping blasts Gordon Brown for his offer of £500 million of climate aid

The sheer number of different measurements used to show evidence of climate change is dizzying. Now, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme has boiled them down to one, simple graph

There's a popular myth that without the US Congress passing a climate change bill, President Obama can't sign up to binding emissions targets. It's wrong, says Kassie Siegel, of the Center for Biological Diversity

BBSRC-funded website backlash against sustainable watchdog’s call to reduce meat consumption

Most people love their home town. But what if you lived in a regularly flooded slum?

A new report by the Sustainable Development Commission warns that, for the good of our health and the environment, we must reduce our meat and dairy consumption. By how much, asks Louise Parry, in this exclusive audio report

The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers has created a 'Carbon Army' with marching order for hands-on action during the Copenhagen summit

Public can borrow electricity monitors for up to 3 weeks in schemes under way throughout the UK

The costs associated with sending delegates to a conference like Copenhagen are prohibitive for many countries

Listen to three high-level responses to the leak of the now infamous 'Danish text'

Previous studies have focused on the impact of acidification on coral reefs but not other marine organisms