13 years after the Kyoto Summit, little progress has been made in reaching the political breakthrough needed.

The Government must make climate-change predictions more business-friendly to help companies to plan ahead for environmental factors such as extreme weather, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will say today.

A significant proportion of the population have become more sceptical about climate change and the link with man-made emissions of greenhouse gases despite the fact that the scientific evidence has become stronger.

UN has underestimated financial burden of global warming, study finds

Confused bystanders in the science wars over climate change often want to know just how the experts know. This absorbing but (be warned) controversial book tells one segment of that story supremely well.

Ed Miliband, the Climate Change Secretary, in a post-G20 statement mentioned the forthcoming "Major Economies Forum". What? Another one?

As well as anti-globalisation protests, climate change campaigners are also out in force today. Our correspondent Jerome Taylor is with them

Fund-raising anthologies can be strange beasts. Editing a collection of stories to raise money for the children's charity 836 NYC, Zadie Smith has called on 22 other authors, almost as hip and talented as herself, to contribute a story about "character".

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Sir: Thankfully, senior US scientists have at last joined the clamour for action on climate change. We are now in need of a convincing political follow-up.

Sir: A population policy for Britain has been debated a couple of times in the past, but quickly dropped. Now that the decline in our birds is official, global warming is official, and a water shortage is upon us, isn't it time to start this debate again? We are well above our carrying capacity, and it's showing.

Read the final two instalments of our series in Section Two next week

From Mr Mike Alexander