Five years down the road from Kyoto, the Protocol that bears that city's name still awaits enough qualifying ratifications to come into force. While attention has been understandably focussed on the ratification process, it is time to begin thinking about the next steps for the global climate...

This paper reviews how sustainable development was treated in prior assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) and presents proposals on how it might be integrated into the forthcoming Fourth Assessment Report(AR4). There has been a steady, but slow, increase in...