Between 7-18 December 2009, world leaders and environment ministers from 192 countries gathered in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change talks, aimed at agreeing a binding global climate agreement from 2012.
In the build up to the Copenhagen Conference, BBC Wales looked at what all this means for people in Wales through a season of programmes and output in late November and early December 2009.
The Green Wales season aimed to raise a number of key questions and foster a national conversation in English and Welsh across our TV, radio, and online services.
We considered key issues such as:- Do people believe that climate change is happening?
- Why does Wales have such high CO2 emission per person?
- Where does responsibility lie - individuals, businesses, local or national government?
- What are the Welsh Assembly Government policies and are they working?
- What are local communities doing to live more sustainably?
- How will reducing CO2 emissions impact on daily life?
In Wales we produce more carbon dioxide per person than either Russia or China.
The season launched on 23 November 2009 with 'Changing Lives - Going Green', a BBC One Wales series in which an unashamedly consumerist family experienced a totally different lifestyle in an alternative community. Questions around climate change were also addressed in a range of other radio and television programming - from Wales Today and Week In Week Out to the Radio Wales Phone In, Perfect Summer and more.
Browse this website for more details about the Green Wales season, including programme highlights, news stories, Have Your Say debates and Maggot's myth-busting videos.
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