Nick Cofer-Calder, of the Climate Media Net, puts it this way: "Climate change themes need to be embedded in long-running series to make it mainstream – to normalise it.
Tony Abbott, the Australian prime minister who is the G20 president this year, had been reluctant to make climate change a central theme of the summit.
For Mr Fukuda, whose domestic standing is shaky, a big prize would be a Chinese commitment to tackle climate change, a big theme at the G8 summit, which Japan will host in July.
For Mr Fukuda, whose domestic standing is shaky, a big prize would be a Chinese commitment to tackle climate change, an important theme at the G8 summit which Japan will host in July.
There was more pressure when Mr Obama then made climate change a key theme of his speech to a receptive audience of students at the University of Queensland on Saturday.
In yet another sign President Barack Obama is making climate change a big theme of his final two years in office, the White House today released its proposed $3.99 trillion budget, and it contains a slew of programs designed to fight global warming.
The most recent Student Design Challenge at the nonprofit Biomimicry 3.8 Institute, in Missoula, Montana, had climate change as a theme and produced a number of innovative cooling designs inspired by nature.
Held in mid-October, it explored linkages between climate change and sub-themes such as agriculture, energy, trade and industry, gender, finance, human and social development, science, technology and innovation, security and diplomacy.
Here's my challenge to Katharine Viner: stick with climate change as a major theme in your columns and let your tenacious investigative journalists loose on the subject.
More than 80 heads of state and government are expected to attend this week's opening of the 62nd General Assembly session, which has adopted climate change as its central theme.
