Many of Europe’s outdated and inefficient power stations have to be replaced in the coming two decades, and Nick Mabey sets out the strategic steps that EU governments need to take together to create a low carbon economy at the least cost

Sorting fact from fiction is becoming central to the climate change debate. In the aftermath of Copenhagen and with Cancun looming ahead, Jim Skea distinguished what can be done and what must be done

It will soon be crunch-time for Europe’s controversially expensive CAP. Valentin Zahrnt puts forward ideas for slimming the EU’s €50bn a year farm budget while making it environmentally attractive

Copenhagen wasn't the unmitigated disaster it's portrayed as, and Cancún may yet build on its foundations. But Alain Juppé warns that "green fundamentalists" who advocate limiting economic growth should think again if the world's poorest nations are not to suffer