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More efforts are needed to hold the leaders of the G8 nations to commitments made at their annual summit meetings.

Effective adaptation strategies will require reliable scientific data both on the nature of climate change and on its potential impact.

The row over the World Bank president's behaviour reinforces the need to safeguard its lending policies from ideological pressure.

The interest in Brazil's ethanol programme should be used to set up fairer partnerships between developing and developed countries.

Whether human activity should share any blame for the storms currently sweeping the Caribbean remains uncertain. What is not in doubt is that such activity has contributed significantly to the resulting devastation.