Conference of the Parties (COP) 14

Yvo de Boer, who runs the UNFCCC secretariat, laid out clearly where we are with agreement on the text in his inimitable laconic style: ‘We are near to the end of putting things in and near to the beginning of taking things out.’

Amid the debates swirling round this conference with cyclonic intensity is one very big question: how can the world’s most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change with such a serious shortfall in targeted funding? Oxfam estimates the task as demanding US$50 billion a year — some US$49 billion more than what’s actually available.

Under a bright blue sky, we spent the day perched on lecture hall benches in Poznan’s University. A one-day immersion on everything you need to know and more about forests and climate change.

So far, the Poznan COP is panning out nicely for memory stick collectors.

Long before dawn broke over London, I took an early train out to the airport and flight to Poznań. Chill mist was still rising off the fields as we landed, and temperatures below freezing...

You wouldn’t expect a football team that had never practiced together to play particularly well, would you?

I love working on an exhibition stand at these kind of conferences. I get to meet such a culturally diverse set of people. All of whom have a variety of backgrounds and reasons for being here.

if you can get here….. We have all looked forward to this year’s UNFCCC event and hopeful of productive outcomes especially our friends and colleagues from developing countries.

I saw two people arguing today about whether biofuels could help save humanity from itself in a carbon-constrained world.