Climate change and conflict: how strong is the connection? Issue 1/2008 features an article about a recent report that identifies three plausible scenarios of how the cascading consequences of unchecked climate change include a range of security problems that could have dire global consequences. There are also articles about a new study showing that rich nations develop at the ecological expense of the poor, interviews with Carl Folke about the upcoming Resilience 2008 Conference and with Chris Reij on the greening of Sahel. You can also read about the new UNEP-report "In dead waters", nine important climate tipping points and much more. open in HTML or PDF >>>