Blogflog: Reflections on COP 17...

A good friend researches climate change policy and is presently at the COP 17 meeting in Durban, South Africa. She also attended COP 15 in Copenhagen a couple of years ago and started a blog about it, which she's now reactivated for Durban.

Her impressions so far were summed up in a note to me today:

desperate, tragic

tired

the whole place feels tired

Copenhagen had some energy

this place is just tired

Anyway, her blog is worth a look if you want a personal, nuanced sense of what goes on at these meetings and the general atmosphere of the place (and maybe some discussion of local flora for the green thumbs among you).