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Patrick Bond examines the forces battling it out at the climate summit in Copenhagen - and the resistance from below.

The economic driving force of capitalism is the need to accumulate wealth - to make profits.

Socialist Worker asked me to go see the new film 2012 and to use the review as an excuse to riff on climate change. So I went. At the end of the film my date said, "Good luck writing a review of that."

Bitter rows over who is responsible for climate change lie behind much of the dithering by world leaders in the run up to the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen next month.

There will be huge climate protests around the world next Saturday 5 December.

Hundreds of climate campaigners took part in a colourful parade in Norwich last Saturday that brought traffic to a standstill.

World leaders are sitting idly by while the planet burns. Those heads of government who can be bothered to attend are due to gather for climate change talks in Copenhagen next month.

Environmental economist Lord Stern of Brentford has recently argued that in order to stop climate change we should all start eating less meat.

The United Nations (UN) climate talks in Copenhagen will begin in less than three weeks time. They will be a sham.

World leaders, including Gordon Brown, who are squandering chances to deal with climate change will face a wave of protests next month.

Around 150 activists gathered at a London forum last Saturday to discuss the situation that climate campaigners face in the run up to the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen next month.

Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, has admitted that next month’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen will not produce any binding treaty to tackle climate change.