Simon Meyer looks at the failure of the international community to recognise the problem of climate change refugees

The CPD team reflect on better processes for making complex climate change decisions.

Miriam Lyons, CPD's Executive Director, looks at the role of faith and visions of change in moving beyond our current impasse.

Rob Salter reflects on the deeper implications of responding to climate change for the way we organise our society, in his new paper that explains why better relationships are the key to successful action on climate change

Paul Gilding, climate activist and writer revisits a paper he co-wrote with Jorgen Randers, shouting out above the drone of the day to day political negotiations that what we are facing is nothing short of a global emergency. He contends it's not too late (yet!) - if we have the political will to mobilise resources and human ingenuity - to keep temperatures below a 1oC rise by reducing CO2 concentrations below 350ppm.

Mark Diesendorf, Deputy Director of the Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality in Rudd's climate change policies.

CPD Fellow, Ben Eltham asks, can the world really face up to the full challenge of climate change? Right now, he writes, you'd have to say no.

Peter Colley, national research director at the CFMEU, a union whose members will be at the frontline of any transition to a carbon-neutral economy, was in Copenhagen as part of a four person CFMEU delegation, and as one of about 316 union representatives.

Rupert Posner from the Climate Group looks beyond the disappointments and debacles of a global conference to see the glass half full.

Robert Salter argues that better relationships are the key to successful action on climate change. As whole societies, we cannot respond adequately to the enormous challenge the climate change threat poses until we achieve greater internal cohesion, and until we focus less on being wealthier and more on being happier. He contends that progress toward both goals requires us to build richer, more effective relationships in all areas of our lives.