Vote for your favourite climate framework 14 December 07

Should the incremental approach of Kyoto be extended, or ditched for something more ambitious? Read the arguments for and against and vote in the New Statesman’s climate choice poll

In Bali the world’s governments have been asked to draw up a long-term plan to stabilise the global climate. Should the incremental approach of the Kyoto Protocol be extended, or ditched for something more ambitious? Deciding which climate framework to plump for might be the most important decision of these politicians’ lives – and ours. Yet most of us have had little or no opportunity to participate in the debate. The rhetoric boils down to four options, which I rate here on the key criteria of scientific rigour, political realism, fairness and simplicity.