84 months and counting … | Andrew Simms

The world produces 73m cars and trucks a year. So a few million wind turbines and solar plants shouldn't be a problem

On the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit we seem to be poised between the possibility of new directions for the world, and meek capitulation to environmental upheaval. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says we have just months to take large-scale action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He calls on developing countries not to...