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Richard Black Environment correspondent

This is my take on what's happening to our shared environment as the human population grows and our use of nature's resources increases

Confessions of a climate gate-opener

I don't normally do requests, as they say - but I've a lot of messages via emails, blog comments and Twitter asking for a follow-up post on the Heartland Institute, and am happy to oblige.

Many thanks for all your messages - nice to know one's thoughts are in such demand!

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Airlines and tar sands proxy for bigger climate battles

It's shaping up to be a crucial week in climate politics.

At the centre stands the EU, cast, in this guise, as climate champion - determined to take a small step towards charging airlines for the full environmental costs of flying, and to tax highly-polluting forms of fossil fuels.

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About Richard

Richard produced and presented science and environment programmes for BBC World Service prior to becoming a news correspondent.

He regularly covers major environment conferences such as the UN climate summits in Copenhagen and Cancun and the UN biodiversity summit in Nagoya in 2010, and recently made radio documentary series on forests, whaling and fisheries.

He has led environment news coverage on the BBC News website for six years.

Richard relaxes with music, sport and reading.

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