"Abnormal" weather is becoming the norm in many parts of the world. Average temperatures, precipitation and wind patterns are changing, and non-climate factors -primarily the accumulation of greenhouse gases produced from human activities - are driving this change. Find out more about the forces behind climate change - but also about the growing citizen awareness and new climate policies towards sustainable development.

The 15th Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is set to take place in Copenhagen from Dec. 7 to 18. World leaders were expected to discuss a legally-binding international climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. But now they say they will aim for a “less-specific political agreement.”

Scientific consensus and the acceptance of the scientific findings is no longer an issue. The main snag to any comprehensive global plan appears to be the issue of financing, particularly the funding of climate initiatives in developing countries by public or private backers in industrialised countries.

UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan

UN Climate Change Conference in Bali