The fundamental challenge facing the global community on climate change is how to avoid increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere at a rate swift enough to avoid climate induced changes that would be catastrophic to human life. Based on the outcomes of the Sydney meeting, the AP6 initiative does not significantly contribute to...

This discussion paper draws on papers prepared by the institute to inform the deliberations of the International Climate Change Taskforce, a collaboration between the institute and two other think tanks, the Institute for Public Policy Research and the Center for American Progress. For the post-2012 period, the paper recommends the development of a new global...