Climate-change policy articles within Nature

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    | Open Access

    A Sobol attribution analysis unveils the roles of mitigation targets, model differences and scenario assumptions in shaping climate policy scenario outcomes.

    • Mark M. Dekker
    • , Andries F. Hof
    •  & Detlef P. van Vuuren

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    An integrated assessment model analysis shows that a moderately differentiated carbon price could achieve as much climate mitigation as a uniform carbon tax, avoiding concerns regarding equity between participating countries or sovereignty.

    • Nico Bauer
    • , Christoph Bertram
    •  & Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Letter |

    The authors report on attempts to increase the yield of smallholder farms in China using ten practices recommended by the Science and Technology Backyard for farming maize and wheat at county level.

    • Weifeng Zhang
    • , Guoxin Cao
    •  & Zhengxia Dou

  • Article |

    A multi-model framework that accounts for climate, water, energy, food, biodiversity and economic activity in Australia reveals that a sustainable society that enjoys economic improvement without ecological deterioration is possible, but that specific political and economic choices need to be made to achieve this.

    • Steve Hatfield-Dodds
    • , Heinz Schandl
    •  & Alex Wonhas

  • Editorial |

    The political inertia that characterizes the world’s response to global warming cannot continue. Politicians and policy-makers must follow the climate’s lead — and change.

  • Editorial |

    With climate talks inching along, gains in energy efficiency could slow the rise in emissions.

  • Comment |

    Abandon coal, price carbon consumption and look to new technologies for a lasting solution to global emissions, argues Dieter Helm.

    • Dieter Helm

  • Comment |

    An emerging coalition is implementing carbon trading despite political obstacles. It is rewriting the map of climate diplomacy, says Michael Grubb.

    • Michael Grubb

  • News Feature |

    Commitments made under the Kyoto climate treaty expire at the end of 2012, but emissions are rising faster than ever.

    • Quirin Schiermeier

  • News |

    But ‘fiscal cliff’ threatens science and climate goals.

    • Eric Hand
    • , Ivan Semeniuk
    •  & Meredith Wadman

  • Editorial |

    Better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming.

  • Comment |

    Climate scientists should learn from the naysayers and pull together to get their message across, says Chris Rapley.

    • Chris Rapley

  • News |

    As the Kyoto Protocol winds down without a strong replacement, countries are implementing their own strategies to reduce global warming.

    • Erik Vance

  • Editorial |

    Two papers in Nature this week highlight the extent to which human activity is influencing global climate, and underline the need for continued scrutiny of the problem.

  • Comment |

    The economic pain of a flattening supply will trump the environment as a reason to curb the use of fossil fuels, say James Murray and David King.

    • James Murray
    •  & David King

  • Comment |

    A summit meeting of heads of government is needed to strengthen global ambition on climate change — we should start preparing now, says Michael Jacobs.

    • Michael Jacobs

  • Editorial |

    Where political leadership on climate change is lacking, scientists must be prepared to stick their heads above the parapet.

  • Editorial |

    The Durban meeting shows that climate policy and climate science inhabit parallel worlds.

  • World View |

    In two decades of covering climate-change negotiations, Frank McDonald, has seen youthful hope fight dark forces, and a distant threat become a reality.

    • Frank McDonald

  • News |

    Marathon talks enable Europe to break deadlock over global-warming deal with major greenhouse-gas emitters.

    • Jeff Tollefson

  • Comment |

    A preoccupation with binding commitments blocks progress in climate-change negotiations. It is time to correct course, says Elliot Diringer.

    • Elliot Diringer

  • Editorial |

    The Heartland Institute's climate conference reveals the motives of global-warming sceptics.

  • Comment |

    International agreements are not enough. Interlinked national and regional tools are also needed to reduce carbon emissions, say Mark Maslin and Joanne Scott.

    • Mark Maslin
    •  & Joanne Scott

  • Editorial |

    Good news — Australia's politicians have rediscovered climate change.

  • Editorial |

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must implement changes now to regain lost credibility or it will remain an easy target for critics seeking to score cheap points.

  • Books & Arts |

    Gwyn Prins commends the latest tome to advocate better ways to accelerate decarbonization.

    • Gwyn Prins

  • World View |

    Monday's key US legal decision on emissions regulation was influenced by the unjustified attacks on climate science, says Douglas Kysar.

    • Douglas Kysar

  • News & Views |

    In October 1998, a hurricane visited death and destruction on Honduras, with flooding and mudslides. A case history of a rural community documents how recovery from that event produced socio-economic improvement.

    • Arun Agrawal

  • News |

    UN panel foresees big growth in renewable energy, but policies will dictate just how big.

    • Jeff Tollefson

  • News Q&A |

    Joe Aldy, former adviser to Barack Obama for energy and environment, assesses the state of US climate legislation.

    • Jeff Tollefson

  • News |

    Mangroves and seagrasses could be protected by valuing the carbon they store.

    • Gayathri Vaidyanathan

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