Climate change: defining moments
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
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?
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
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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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?
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