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Durban: doom and gloom or the sunny uplands of a new dawn?

Posted by bens - 28 November 2011 at 4:30pm - 2 Comments

Activists raise a wind turbine on the beach in Durban

Greenpeace and Tcktcktck volunteers raise a wind turbine on the beach at dawn in Durban

Well here we are again, several thousand people gathering in a conference centre to talk about climate change and, supposedly, work towards a deal to actually do something about it. There are good guys and bad guys: campaigners say a deal is possible while journalists sound pessimistic. We’ve been here before, right? Yes, but Durban really is important and maybe, just maybe, this time it’s a little bit different.