Activists gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this April for a conference on climate change, just months after world leaders met in Copenhagen, Denmark, at a summit sponsored by the United Nations. Both conferences claimed to take on issues of global warming and environmental devastation, but the differences between them wouldn't have been more stark.

Despite recent
attempts to revive the climate change skepticism debate, it is now universally
recognized within science that humanity is confronting the prospect — if we do
not soon change course — of a planetary ecological collapse.

To anybody interested in the future of the earth’s climate,
the conclusion of the Copenhagen conference represents either colossal
disappointment or profound rage, writes Donal Mac Fhearraigh

Chris Williams looks at the destructive impact of the proposed agreement on climate change being debated at the United Nations conference in Copenhagen

Today (Sunday), in a second day of demonstrations in Copenhagen, Danish police continued their repression, detaining more than 200 people.

As world leaders gather at the Cohenhagen summit to discuss climate change, Martin Empson gives the perspective of a socialist active in Britain. He argues that the market cannot save the planet - we need a mass movement.

Capitalism is causing climate chaos as massive corporations wreck the planet, burning huge amounts of fossil fuels disregarding everything in a frenzied race for profits.

Massive corporations are wrecking the planet, burning huge amounts of fossil fuels and causing climate change as they disregard everything in a frenzied race for profits, write Tom Walker

Campaigner Jørn Andersen spoke to Socialist Worker about the protests that will greet world leaders at the UN climate summit in Denmark