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A meeting in Copenhagen – what’s it all about?
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The key thing to understand about the upcoming UN climate summit in Copenhagen is how massively, vitally, fate-of-the-earth-decidingly important brackets are to the whole process. Yes, [brackets]. If you grasp the brackets thing, then everything else is pretty much irrelevant detail.
Nevertheless, let's do a little run-through before we get onto it.
The Copenhagen summit, also known as the Conference of the Parties 15 or COP15, or 'the best moment we've ever had to actually, you know, sort it out', is the fifteenth big meeting organised by the United Nations to discuss a global response to climate change.
Take a tour of the Rainbow Warrior in London and Edinburgh
The Rainbow Warrior anchored near Kingsnorth power station during last year's UK visit
Shiver me timbers and other nautical cliches. Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior is currently on her way to the UK. She and her crew are en route to Copenhagen for the UN climate conference next month, but she'll be harbouring in London and Edinburgh over the next couple of weeks and her gangplanks will be lowered for anyone who wants to visit.
Activists and journalists are getting deported, detained and intimidated in Indonesia
The 11 foreign activists deported over the last day or so
When both you and the journalists who are accompanying you start getting deported it's usually a sign that you're doing something right. But that doesn't make the current situation in Indonesia any better.
It certainly seems to be the case that our Climate Defenders Camp on the Kampar peninsula of Sumatra has ruffled a few feathers with the Indonesian authorities.