A recent poll shows public belief in the threat of global warming is slipping.

Failure to agree a successor to the Kyoto protocol would lead to countries pursuing their own objectives and expose world economies to protectionism, CEO of business software company SAP Léo Apotheker said while in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum.

After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a deal.

Fighting climate change is a huge investment opportunity but not through emissions trading and investors should instead put their money into renewables which will power our economy in the future, says a leading environmental scientist and cap and trade expert.

We are winning the science battle over the climate change science, because IPCC’s fabrication is unraveling, but we have not yet won the war. This will take just a bit more time.

Among the many messages sent out by politicians during the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, “Be sustainable — don’t buy sex” has to be one of the least expected. This was the advice circulated by Ritt Bjeregaard, the city’s mayor and a former EU Environment Commissioner, sent via postcard to all the hotels in the city. to tell them to stamp down on conference-goers looking to patronise prostitutes on their premises.

There are numerous youth groups at the Copenhagen Climate Conference and they have all come here to make sure their collective voice is heard as delegates negotiate an agreement on how to tackle climate change. We spoke to one group which is putting pressure on businesses and politicians on ethical business strategies.

With the world’s eyes firmly fixed on the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen it is easy to forget that there remains a significant group of scientists and politicians who do not accept that humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases are the primary cause of climate change.