Farmers produce food, not carbon. Yet, if some of the governments and corporate lobbies negotiating at the UN climate change conference to be held in Warsaw from 11-22 November have their way, farmland could soon be considered as a carbon sink that polluting corporations can buy into to compensate for their harmful emissions.
Climate change
As recriminations fly post-Copenhagen, one writer offers a fly-on-the-wall account of how talks failed. By Mark Lynas, Guardian.co.uk