According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed countries should take the lead in combating climate change. This paper highlights development patterns that could gradually transform Northern societies in low-emission countries. Given that the environmental space available to...

Wolfgang Sachs, in his capacity as co-ordinator and editor of a group of 15 people that produced ‘The Johannesburg Memo: Fairness in a Fragile World’, reflects on what has to be radically different in Johannesburg if it is to catch up with the ecological disasters we are facing 10 years on...