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Clean technology to meet poor communities' needs must lie at the heart of any sustainable strategy to combat climate change.

Climate change's complex links with insect-borne disease need solid research — not alarmism that distracts from other crucial factors.

The climate change debate offers a way to integrate forest management into development policy, but strategies must be informed by good science.

This week's G20 summit in London must ensure that any solution to the global financial crisis also commits to sustainable economic growth.

Science can help developing countries facing commodity-price and climate turmoil: the biggest challenge is how to ensure it does.

More efforts are needed to hold the leaders of the G8 nations to commitments made at their annual summit meetings.

A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith.

The world must not miss its second chance to take a radically different approach to energy consumption.

Last week's award of the Nobel peace prize signals the coming of age of the public communication of science.

Almost unnoticed, Nepal is developing simple and cheap technologies that make the best of local resources and don't damage the environment.

Effective adaptation strategies will require reliable scientific data both on the nature of climate change and on its potential impact.

At its global summit next week the G8 needs to build on the work of its predecessors, putting science and technology back at the heart of the international aid agenda.

The row over the World Bank president's behaviour reinforces the need to safeguard its lending policies from ideological pressure.

All members of the media must work together to ensure sustainable development is given the attention it deserves.

The interest in Brazil's ethanol programme should be used to set up fairer partnerships between developing and developed countries.

A report last week on the economic aspects of climate change is not just another warning of imminent catastrophe, it is also an optimistic message for developed and developing countries alike.

A combination of factors appears to be pushing the risk-benefit balance back into nuclear's favour as an energy option for developing countries. SciDev.Net readers are invited to comment.

The forthcoming meeting of heads of the world's industrialised nations must not let self-interest detract from the challenge of global poverty and efforts to soften the impact of globalisation on the developing world.

Any effort to eliminate Iran's nuclear research facilities by force would be both a catastrophe for the region and a major setback for the 'science for development' debate.

Despite the apparent success of the latest international negotiations on climate change, new approaches to reaching agreement on reducing carbon emissions in an equitable way are needed more than ever.