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Clean technology to meet poor communities' needs must lie at the heart of any sustainable strategy to combat climate change.

A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith.

A combination of factors appears to be pushing the risk-benefit balance back into nuclear's favour as an energy option for developing countries. SciDev.Net readers are invited to comment.

Last week's report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment provides a timely reminder of the plight facing the global environment. But its scare tactics could alienate those whose support is needed to reverse current trends.