Surprising isn't it, how climate change has garnered so much interest, pick up a newspaper, magazine, surf the net, check google alerts, the planet is in a perpetual state of catastrophe, at the heart of which lies 'Climate Change'. Hmm, what do you think? Is climate change for real? I think climate change is an opportunity. Whether the science becomes advanced enough that it leaves no doubt in our minds that earth's temperature is going to increase by 4 °C, corrective action against climate change still remains our best avenue to correct what we have been doing wrong for sometime now.
What the discussions and concerns on climate change have done are point to out to all the mistakes that humanity has made in the last 50 years in every respect of life (technology, energy consumption, lifestyles, cities, villages, markets). Climate Change forces us to take up issues like alternative fuels, sustainability and energy efficiency and try to make sense of them. This wasn't required about 25 years back, when the global economies were building and rebuilding. The growth of Asian superpowers has created a lot of interest and is viewed with caution by the western hemisphere. There are calls to impede their (asian superpowers) growth so as to mitigate the effect of climate change, is that fair? Well, that's another post for you on global politics 
. The issue of past inventories and new inventories of CO2 for developed and developing countries is a messy messy puddle of coal tar.
Our world has been dependent on one type of fuel for a long while (fossil fuels) and assumed that limited (yet limitless) supply will never be an issue. Now suddenly solar, wind, nuclear, hydrogen have become an option.This is a really good opportunity for countries, governments, societies and corporations to have a hard look at themselves, structure themselves that energy, basic resources remains the least of their problems. The problem is that to get to this stage it requires a lot of time, energy (not surprisingly), investment but more importantly it requires perspective. Perspective which is not limited to achieving revenue, profit targets in 1 - 2 yrs. But, perspective which looks at the long term viability of revenue, profits and lowering costs of compliance, impact on society, humanity and embraces sustainability. Perspective which is not looking for results in 5 - 10 years, but 50 years, perspective which believes in live and let live.
Sustainability, another buzzword which is all over the place, more misused in today's world than the any word that we all know about. You cannot achieve sustainability in one day, not even in years, you can strive for it, it is a thinking, not a goal, not a target, it is not quantifiable. It is a perspective, which expands one's thinking beyond the mundane economic considerations. It looks at everything and anything from all the angles and dimensions (I know the ppl in sting theory research will be happy about this). I am sorry if went off to a tangent in this post, can't help it, the topic is really diverse.
Good Websites to view on Climate Change:
www.ipcc.ch
www.unfccc.int
Btw, Trinity has a service / business line called Sustainability and Environmental Management (SEM). worth looking it up on the website : http://www.trinityconsultants.com/Environmental_Management.asp?C=3&S=16