Economists generally agree that the key to addressing climate change is to raise the cost of burning fossil fuels, either directly, through a carbon tax, or indirectly, through a cap-and-trade program.
On the streets of Dublin the mood regarding the economy, the cuts and "Eurogeddon" seems to be a mixture of burning resentment tinged with resignation.
Bill Shorten said former New South Wales premier Neville Wran "kept the light on the hill burning brightly for Labor" as it was announced Wran will be given a state funeral.
Over the winter of 1937, Japanese troops in Nanjing unleashed a relentless onslaught of looting, burning, torture and murder.
Charcoal burning has led to serious environmental problems in this region of north-east Uganda, as the majority of vegetation has been destroyed.
For those who have been, we often do not have vaccination cards as they fled from burning villages," says the 27-year-old nurse.
Related: Edinburgh university rejects calls to divest from all fossil fuels There wasn't much that was black and white beyond a fundamental agreement that human activity, and as a large part of that the burning of fossil fuels for energy, was driving climate change.
No place was worst affected than Athens, from where televised images of riots, tear gas and burning buildings were shown around the world.
We are burning the established system down to the ground and forging a new future for business from the flames".
When she recalls her eldest sibling's engagement, she says, matter-of-factly: "We were worried because that was when they started burning down a lot of churches".
Maimuna Abdulmumini, 22, accused of burning her husband to death as a teenager, remains in prison today despite the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Court of Justice ruling in June 2014 that the decision by a court in the north of the country to impose the death penalty was a violation of her fundamental rights.
