SERIES 2: NOW AND FOREVER

The “ecosystem service" that most exercises the international community is climate stability. The increasingly grim findings of the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have shocked politicians and public alike as have the assessments by Nicholas Stern and others of the cost in trillions of dollars of "business as usual". Looking ahead to Copenhagen, Nature Inc. asks what will be the impact on the global economy if the art of the politically- possible does not match up to what the overwhelming majority of climate scientists say must be done?