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The United Nations programme to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has matured substantially in the past year. Now the field must innovate to accommodate its growth, says Anna Petherick.

The inspirational political leadership needed to tackle dangerous climate change may be lacking, but some business leaders are taking the initiative.

Rotting food and other biological waste produce potent greenhouse-gas emissions. Tapping these gases and improving recycling rates would reap multiple benefits, reports Sonja van Renssen.

Biologist Petteri Vihervaara gathered together specialists in geography, ecology, forestry, cultural studies and ethnography to analyse people's attitudes about the ecosystem services of different plantations in the context of rapid afforestation in Uruguay.

Policies to protect the global climate offer an effective entry point for achieving society's multiple objectives for energy sustainability.

Budget cuts earlier this year to the US agency that collects and analyses energy data are worrying industry experts. Many fear that businesses and policymakers won't have vital information to make decisions regarding infrastructure, from building design to grid deployment.

As the United Nations climate negotiations flounder, businesses are forging ahead with their own low-carbon standards. Have we passed a political tipping point for momentum on carbon action?

In October, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, funded in part by climate sceptics, concluded that the Earth is warming based on the most comprehensive review of the data yet. Nature Climate Change talks to the project's director, physicist Richard Muller.