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Watching the players at the climate poker table

In two decades of covering climate-change negotiations, Frank McDonald, has seen youthful hope fight dark forces, and a distant threat become a reality.

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McDonald, F. Watching the players at the climate poker table. Nature 480, 293 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/480293a

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