STWR - Share The World's Resources

Climate change is freeing the Arctic of ice - and spurring a global competition for the natural resources stored beneath. Countries that border the sea are staking new territorial claims and oil giants are dispatching geologists. But what will the tug-of-war mean for the indigenous people and wildlife? By Gerald Traufetter.

In the past 10 years, one Danish island has cut its carbon footprint by a staggering 140 per cent. Now, with a simple grid of windfarms, solar panels and sheep, it's selling power to the mainland and taking calls from Shell.By Robin McKie.

Whenever someone has dared challenged the Western lifestyle to address global warming, there has been a quick and sharp retaliation - and R K Pachauri's citing of the meat problem is no exception, writes Devinder Sharma.

The push for Carbon Storage is yet another outcome of pathological business greed and the reliance on technical fixes to tackle symptoms, rather than the systemic sickness at the heart of global capitalism, say Medialens.

Carbon offset schemes, as espoused by Coldplay et al, are no solution to climate change. As long as we think that we can compensate for our consumption with a little extra cash, we come no closer to the kinds of change needed to fend off global warming, argues Melissa Checker.

There's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy, argues Oliver Tickell.

Market mechanisms are unsuited in principle to the tasks involved in combatting climate change - so why are markets set to become the backbone of world action against global warming, asks Renfrey Clarke.