STWR - Share The World's Resources

There is no single "right way" to implement Plan B, but the following list of 12 steps would go a long way towards insuring that we and our children will have a world worth living in, writes Matthew Stein.

The benign post-summit headlines conceal the G8's retreat from leadership on climate change. It's time for a global civil-society initiative, says Andrew Pendleton.

The G8 climate communique showed that it is trying hard to avoid the necessary radical controls on growth, consumption, profits, and the market that a viable strategy to stave off the looming climate catastrophe will necessitate, writes Walden Bello.

The G8 agreement on climate change, without a baseline for reductions, is effectively a not-quite-a-pledge - and rather meaningless, writes Michael McCarthy.

Far from stymying the environmental cause, the downturn in the world’s economies highlights just how pressing it is, writes Rajendra Pachauri (chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

There is no cheap alternative to a green economy - and no trade off possible between the economy and ecology. What we need is a green industrial revolution and a 'new New Deal', writes George Monbiot.