STWR - Share The World's Resources

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.

The climate camp must succeed. In the absence of political backbone, our only hope is an avalanche of public revulsion, writes George Monbiot.

Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warn - and we have only 100 months to avoid disaster, explains Andrew Simms.

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.