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Climate change: defining moments

  • MH17 AIDS Melbourne

    World in a week: leading HIV researchers amongst MH17 dead

    14-18 July: Catch up with all the development-related news you may have missed this week
  • James Hansen, Nasa's climate scientist

    Climate change: has science finally won the debate?

    Karl Mathiesen: Was there a definitive moment when the scientific community reached a consensus about climate change?

  • Indira Gandhi

    Climate change and poverty: why Indira Gandhi's speech matters

    India's late prime minister's Stockholm address linked poverty and the environment for the first time. It has been misinterpreted ever since, writes Karl Mathiesen

  • REUTERS NEWS PICTURES SERVICE - PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2013

    Typhoon Haiyan was just the start – prepare for an ever stormier future

    In 2012, typhoon Bopha redefined how big a typhoon could get; a year later, Haiyan blew that redefinition out of the water. We need to channel funding into preparation and resilience
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  • Huaorani Indian children play with scarlet macaws in Yasuni National Park

    The first climate justice summit: a pie in the face for the global north

    An alternative summit held during Cop 6 brought the idea of climate justice onto the global stage. How pivotal was this moment for how the climate change movement progressed?

  • Copenhagen

    Defining moments in climate change: hope and crisis in Copenhagen

    From "Hopenhagen" to a "suicide pact" for developing nations, Copenhagen 2009 has gone down as a failure in international cooperation. Will it cast a shadow on Paris talks this year? Karl Mathiesen reports

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