Climate change and efforts to deal with it are being pushed down the political agenda by fallout from the global economic downturn and increasing concerns about energy security.

The credit crunch and global fuel and food crises were bound to distract attention away from the environment to some extent but Russia's recent invasion of Georgia , which sits on a key East/West energy supply route , has generated serious concerns bordering on paranoia about the security of energy supplies so at a time when protection of the environment requires maximum co-operation at the global level the competing  political blocs and nations are now simply focussong back on solutions to their own energy demands and security problems in the same old Devil take the hindmost way.

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