I took this picture today of the police prescence here at Jo-berg. Last week they fired stun grenades into a peaceful crowd holding candles. The crowd was marching to a jail where some local activists from a party called the Landless Peoples Movement were being detained by the police.
Today's rally was peaceful, thankfully.

Big night for the political team. They've divided the watch, as if we were on a ship threatened by pirates. And indeed, it will be a night of long knives as the ministers and their aides work to hammer out as much as possible before the Honchos arrive tomorrow. Rumour has it Blair is going on Safari. Don't want to bother the boss with details, do we?

The Kyoto language has been finalized, and it's a measure of our shortening expectations that we're almost counting it a victory that the summit won't gut the Climate agreement. They've agreed language which says "States which have ratified urge States which have not done so to do so." Hello, George Bush. Hello, Australia, hello Canada. Your pals are sending you a message there, so listen real hard.

Our biggest worry right now is renewables targets. The German chancellor, hammered by concerns from his countrymen about recent floods, was making good noises in Germany about targets. Will he put action behind his words? Chirac arrives tomorrow. Will he have the guts to challenge the US on climate issues? And what about Denmark, currently enjoying the chairmanship of the EU but failing to show the guts or the leadership the job requires.

Some of the draft renewables agreements are widening their definition of renewables. For example, aiming for 10% of primary electricty to be generated by renewables is a good thing. But if the definition of renewables includes large scale hydro and that's a regional target for, e.g., Latin America, then governments could conceivably REDUCE the percentage of their power generated by renewables and still meet the target. Now that's progress.

And the much-lauded Fisheries agreement???? Our experts pointed out that the Summit tood a legally binding set of requirements set out in the Law of the Sea Treaty in 82 and reduced them to "voluntary" aims. Fisheries protection just got rolled back 30 years. On the positive side, the delegates agreed to end subsidies for illegal fishing. Bold, eh?

What the delegates need to know is that they are NOT going to be able to spin a bunch of empty agreements as progress. There are just too many sharp cookies around here to have the wool pulled over their eyes.

More news tomorrow. Today's march has bouyed many of us up, but the prospect from the meeting hall is looking dim.

--b

The air is thick with foul deals and dangerous compromises. The delegates are whispering behind closed doors.

An Indian friend told me during the Dow action:
If you can talk, you can sing
If you can walk, you can dance

one would think that to negotiate you need to talk, and there's a talkfest going on over the road. but what's said, and what it means are very different. so a whole lotta speaking occurs, but the meaning eludes all except the ones in the know. for instance, when 'common but differentiated responsibilities' is raised, so are the tempers in the room. why? because it means 'polluter pays'... 'marine living resources' - what? oh that means whaling. but my favourite is health care services. a benign term you think, but think of it in terms of reproduction...

the little microcosm is quite a fascinating exposure to humanity in all its colours. people bustle around, representing countries, ways of thinking, right, left, diplomat, negotiator and facilitator. and they attend the functions, stay at the five star hotels, drink the wine of the host country and discuss the future of the earth and society.

they are all on the circuit, know each other from doha, monterrey, bonn, places where the same issues were raised, similar deals cut and with the same level of host country service. but do they know what it's like to go to bed hungry, like 70 million people do every night? have they smelt the forest after it's been clearfelled and burnt off? it's easier to cut a deal between water and energy if you don't have to walk 2 kilometres to collect water every day, or if you don't live on a low lying atol in the pacific.

reality check!

there's the potential to do so much, yet the will to do as little as possible - and we have to turn this around. what a challenge... but if we don't it will be business as usual and there will be no change in these people across the road that are negotiating and compromising away our planet. so speak out, demand government responsibility and corporate accountability, smell the fresh sea air, and watch the sun set.

At 8.45, I was just going to leave to our office, when Erika my colleague who is in charge of this days action, a protest against the Dow factory in Chloorkop, asks me to drive her. It is urgent, she says. She asks me to do a last check of the directions.

9.00, the two of us drive north for half an hour. There at the meeting point we find a bulk of journalists. We go to the place where the activist are. Everything goes well. A big success.

11.00 While we are there a radio station calls me. They want to have a Greenpeace climate expert in their studio at 14.00 hrs. at the Global Forum, which is approximately 40 minutes in the south. A two hours programme, they say. I desperately try to find a person to do this interview, in vain. At noon we are in the Office.

12.30 I decide now to do the interview myself, but realise that I've forgotten my accreditation card for the Global Forum in my hotel in Bruma.

12.35 Despite the fact, that I have got lost on the highway several times, I risk a shortcut. After 20 minutes I realize I am again in front of the Dow pestizide factory. I turn down to the south.

12.40 Erika calls me. She has forgotten her laptop in my car. She needs
it. I ask her to call in the hotel. Maybe there is someone of Greenpeace
who can bring it to her in the office.

12.41 I missed the exit. (They call it "offramp" in SA)

13.00 Brad calls me. He is waiting in the hotel to get the laptop. I promise him to be in 15 minutes there.

13.20 Take the laptop from the back seat give it to Brad and rush to my room for the accreditation card. I can't find it! It disappeared.

13.20 "You can't miss the interview! Go just go! You have to think of some
solution in the car"

13.25 I call the radio journalist that I will be five minutes late.

13.30 This is the solution! I decide to call one of my Tibetan friends at the Global Forum. Someone could bring a card from another Tibetan to the entrance. Police won't notice .

13.31 His phone number is not on my cellular.

14.00 Reach the global forum. I find his phonenumber, finally. He can't help me now. He says, he is having lunch. I fully understand.

14.01 While running. I call another Tibetan. He says he has only his own card. But is afraid police will notice that I am not person the card shows. I promise him that everything will be allright.

14.05 I wait outside the entrance. He gives me the card. I rush in and find my lunch friend. I give him the card and ask him to go outside to get his colleague in again.

14.10 I run to the media center. Person awaits me. I beg him not to become too technical.

14.15 With a small delay the interview starts.

14.25 Interview is finished after only seven minutes.

What is it like to be a Greenpeace press officer at the summit in Johannesburg? I really can't tell. But maybe the above gives you an insight and the encouragement to apply for a vacancy.

Wang Po

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Wang Po is a Tibetan media officer with Greenpeace Switzerland. He is working on maintaining the existing biodiversity of the Planet. As well, he works on the many aspects of the Energy campaign, based around the idea that renweable energy is the future for our world. He also supports non Greenpeace campaigns such as the Free-Tibet movement.

Hi kids! Have you been watching the proceedings of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg? Do you wish that YOU too could take bold commitments to save the world and turn them into mushy language full of loopholes, wiggle room, and ambiguity GUARANTEED to ensure you never have to lift a finger to save the planet???

Well now you CAN! Let's pretend you're a real world leader in Johannesburg! Here's what you should do when handed a draft agreement.

Let's say this draft contains the following statement:

All countries agree to phase out nuclear power.

Isn't that just awful? So clear and so simple a child could have written it, but it'll mean a lot of work for you when you get home. It may also make some of those pals of yours a little bit upset. They might not buy you any more elections! So let's swing into action!

Now, if you're a national delegate, you can tell the Chairman that you want to put that statement in brackets. Brackets mean you're not entirely happy with that text, and you'd like to strangle it. Go on. Any country can do it, all by themselves, for any reason at all. Brackets are cheap, so sprinkle them liberally throughout any text that suggest actually doing anything! It's so easy!!!

[All countries agree to phase out nuclear power.]

Now that you've got it in brackets, let's add some cool inactivating phrases. Personally, I've always liked "take measures to." Watch!

[All countries agree to {take measures to} phase out nuclear power.]

Still, that's a bit too crisp. So let's reach into our document hat and find another nifty nugget. How about "have instruments in place"??? Sounds like lawyers will get involved! Now THAT ought to slow things down!

[All countries agree to {take measures to} {have instruments in place to} phase out nuclear power.]

Now, our commitment is a little lopsided, so lets look at a couple conditional clauses for the second half. Let's try the ever popular, "inter alia, where possible"! Now we've got a spiffy little loophole!

[All countries agree to {take measures to} {have instruments in place to} phase out {inter alia, where possible} nuclear power.]

Super-duper! Now, by putting one little phrase in front of the entire sentence, we can make it look like we value talking to everybody before doing anything. If we word it right, we'll find ourselves making a commitment to simply TALK ABOUT making a commitment! Outstanding!!!! So, let's "Develop multi-stakeholder approaches with the aim to," shall we!

[All countries agree to {develop multi-stakeholder approaches with the aim to {take measures to} {have instruments in place to} phase out {inter alia, where possible} nuclear power.]

But wait a minute, we've been talking for ten years about some of these subjects, and talking is really, really tiring. So let's see if we can't change this into a commitment to THINKING about TALKING about taking action. Oh boy oh boy! Let's "Consider adopting plans to"!!! Rockin!

[All countries agree to {consider adopting plans to} {develop multi-stakeholder approaches, with the aim to {take measures to} {have instruments in place to} phase out {inter alia, where possible} nuclear power.]

And there we have it! A masterpiece of syntactical inaction designed to send you home from Johannesburg with zippity-do-dah diddley-squat to do!!!

This would be an excellent time to use your new found leisure to take up a hobby. How about those violin lessons you've been putting off???

Today we did an action against Dow Chemicals here...

The press release says "Wastewater discharge taken from the plant showed a the presence of a number of persistent toxic chemicals, including volatile organochlorines like chloroform and tetrachloromethane, chlorinated benzenes and alkanes, and the pesticide lindane (HCH). The open release of these deadly chemicals from the chlorine plant to its downstream evaporation ponds poses serious and long-term hazards to the health of nearby communities in Tembisa and to the surrounding environment."

The police were very nice about us being there - apparently one policeman lived nearby, and were happy to accept our Greenpace t-shirts. I wonder what the Super will say about that?

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

Things get more interesting. Last night we were at the IUCN auditorium a block over from the conference centre where the World Business Council on Sustainable Development(includes General Motors and BP) joined Greenpeace in calling for immediate implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. The place was standing room only and the crowd loved it when the announcement was made. Some people will be unhappy but pressure builds on governments as more unusual alliances come together. This morning Canada's Environment Minister had a hissy fit when he was asked about the Greenpeace poll released very early today. The poll shows that 63% of Canadians want Prime Minister Chretien to apologize to the world for failure to meet Canada's commitments made in Rio. Anderson went on about how Canada is an environmental leader and that what was needed was to cut the budget of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - employer of the journalist who asked the question and to put the money into the environment. Canadians he said would appreciate how well the federal government was protecting the environment in Canada if journalists did a better job. My guess is that the minister did not spend much time in Toronto this summer breathing the brown soup that passed for our air many days. My guess is that he is feeling defensive. Anyway, let's see how he does on the negotiations. Last night as well Canada's top energy negotiator was asked about the 10% renewables target that is being proposed here and said that Canada did not support targets. Beyond that she would not answer a question on Canada's position on subsidies to dirty energy. This team needs new instructions.

More gossip to come.

-Peter

It just hit midnight here in the Greenpeace Information Bunker in Joburg.

This place starts buzzing at 7:30 AM when we have our daily strategy
and update meeting, then just doesn't quit until between 3-4 AM when Tom Turner and our coalition partners put the ECO Equity newsletter to bed.

Oxfam has an office across the hall, folks from Friends of the Earth and WWF are in and out all day, press and delegation members come by to get or trade information, everybody trying to navigate the peaks and troughs of adrenaline-fuelled activity.

Every day there's a press event to prepare or a full-court political attack to be made. A leaked document reveals an ally going soft. The political team swings into action to chart out a swarming strategy -- somebody to confront a delegate in the halls, somebody to plant a question with another national delegation, somebody making calls back to media and Greenpeace offices in their own countries to mount a little democratic pressure from the home turf. It's an elaborate, cutthroat game of high-stakes political chess.

Sometimes I wish Greenpeace had the kind of money Exxon has, so we could do it the easy way: just buy a leader's election for them.

The stage set for this maniacal opera is our little four-room office. It's crammed with computers, boxes of documents, cell phones charging, dried fruit, brochures, briefings, office supplies and empty coffee cups. It smells of humans living in close quarters. Cables spaghetti around the room. Someone has hung a mock delegate badge on the potted plant in the corner, identifying the tall leafy creature as a representative from a "Major Group."

A linux server on a laptop sits on my desk, quietly keeping information flowing around the office network, out to the Greenpeace world, and around the planet. The server gets a desk all to itself (which means I do too!) -- an incredible luxury in this elbow to elbow space.

But keeping the server happy is one of my jobs here, and the server needs its space. Too many times in other mobile offices, we lost the entire network when somebody decided to borrow the ethernet cable from that innocent looking little laptop. CRASH, everthing in the office goes down. Press officers scream. Eight computer traffic pile ups. Printers stutter in mid sentence, press releases stall in mid sound bite, pictures going out to agencies go blank, web pages wilt. IT guy goes from hero to zero in 225 milliseconds.

So server gets its own desk. Cables get duct-taped to the table. Annette, our Kiwi logistics possum, growls at anyone getting too close.

Susan, one of our press officers, keeps a set of post-it notes in her filofax. There's big numbers written on them, and every day she makes a dramatic moment of ripping the next one off... 6 days to go!

6 days left. Jeepers. Are we winning yet?

Today I am 28 years old, plus one day.

What difference has that day made in the world? Will the EU offer me the gift of a solid new renewables target proposal or will they stick to their pointless but also dangerous little scheme?

I don't think I'm asking for too much. The EU so far has been the star in the climate debate. (then again, we have a saying in greek which is "ín the company of blind men, the one-eyed man leads the way"). But we shouldn't complain, if it wasn't for the EU right now, we would have lost the Kyoto battle when the US decided to act like a spoilt little brat and do absolutely nothing about climate change.

The EU shouldn't back down, not now that we have the global opportunity of adopting a solid new renewables target which is a prerequisite for protecting the world's climate.

Notice that I'm not being unreasonable. I'm not wishing for the oil producing countries to take the initiative of putting forth this proposal. Nor I am I hoping that George W. will jump out of a cake in a sparkly thong, promising to cut greenhouse gas emissions or even to become human.

I am asking for the EU to deliver a real renewables target and to form alliances so that the world's states commit to clean energy for all.

Within the next week.

Happy birthday to me!

There was no Tuesday afternoon entry because it was too nuts. Last night we had a briefing with the Canadian delegation. Richard Ballhorn the head of delegation answered questions for about an hour and then his staff dealt with our questions for a bit longer. The negotiators told us that a number of issues were not going to be resolved by the delegates - they would have to be resolved by the politicians who would be arriving in the next day, Wednesday. The ministers will speak to the plenary session on Thursday. One of the big issues that will likely be left for the politicians to resolve will be the renewable energy targets. However, so much remains outstanding that the chair of the negotiating meetings set a meeting on Tuesday night meant to go all night to try and resolve as many issues as possible. A lot of bad things can be decided at 2 in the morning so we set up shifts to go through the night and track the discussions. I got the lucky shift - 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and went over to the plenary session. Imagine a vast basketball arena sized room, with easily 40 rows of tables and chairs in a square around the centre of the room. In the centre the chair of the meeting trying to get through the wrangling. In an interlude between wrangles a friendly delegate came over to talk about how the US is playing chicken with other countries. Trying to weaken or obliterate language around environmental protection they want to put other countries in a box for not agreeing. The meeting will collapse if no consensus is found and so the country that can be blamed for not allowing agreement to happen can be blamed for making the conference fail. This game of UN chicken looks like it will intensify in the days to come. The talks came to a deadlock at 11:00 p.m. and the chair cancelled the all night session - much to the relief of many. I headed back home after midnight in a cab with an amazingly talkative cabby. He talked about why he wants the summit to succeed - too many hungry kids, too many kids who have never slept in a bed, he sees the summit as a chance for the poor to get enough to survive. The larger environment stuff is not on his agenda. While we drove back there was a huge thunderstorm, lightning flashing like mad and the car windows fogging up so we were constantly using sheets of toilet paper from the roll he kept in his car to clear the fog off the windshield. The days are not getting shorter here.

-Peter

There are two competing renewable energy proposals being floated right now. One is from Brazil, and calls for a target of 10% of primary power to be generated by NEW renewables by 2012. This is the good one.

The EU has been working on an alternative calling for 15% to be generated by renewables. BUT there's been some disagreement about what constitutes a renewable. Currently, they're considering allowing large-scale hydro and traditional biomass (e.g., burning dung and wood) to count as "renewables." Nice one. The CURRENT percentage of power being generated by renewables under their definition is 13.9%, so that whopping big number of 15% is a pretty slimy showpiece if they allow hydro and biomass in.

Brazil's proposal is stricter, and would lead to development investment in small-scale solar, wind, and other forms of cleaner energy.

The EU started out strong on this, but as we overheard: "In typical fashion, the Euro-weenies have caved to their fall back position on the first day."

They discussed the proposal today with other countries, and here's a few choice reactions:

The US: "As you know, we're the world's leaders in renewable research" [AHEM, he didn't note that they are also shamelessly behind most OECD countries in the percentage of power which renewables deliver] "we should encourage investment, but targets are unacceptable."

["Hello, Exxon, this is George Bush. Heh heh, I'm calling to encourage you to develop solar power, ok? No, no, that's ok, I can wait on hold as long as you want, sir! in fact, I didn't really mean to bother you I know how busy you are, I'm just ticking off my to do list from the Earth Summit...."]

The G77: "Targets are for developed countries. For developing countries, the focus needs to be on energy access."

[Now who was speaking for the G77 and suggesting that renewables were less important for the developing world? Oil giant IRAN, that's who!!!!! To market, to market...]

Japan:: Said they could not agree a 15% target, because that could lead to less flexibility in their national energy policies.

[We're not here for flexible national energy policies, folks, we're here to agree international action to save the freaking planet. If you want worldwide action, you gotta give up a little "national flexibility," eh????]

"For Japan, what is important is energy security, economic growth, and environmental ummmm ummm ummm ummm ummmm ummm ummmm [this was, I swear, a painful ten second struggle to find the right word...] ummm umm ummm ummm

consideration.

I'm sitting here looking at a piece of paper titled "Non Paper" and wondering if I've fallen down an Earth Summit rabbit hole.

Yes! I have! I've just heard that there's a huge move on to acknowledge "corporate responsibility" and allow more self-regulation by industry. Hello? Enron? Bhopal?

Earth to Summit, Earth to Summit!!!!

Quick! Have a look at the Green Oscars to see who's who among the best and the brightest of coporations looking to create a clean, green-washed world.

First a warning. Much of what is reported in terms of country positions is based on gossip picked up in the hallways. Thus not all is complete or necessarily verified. Please look for verification with any of these statements. But to start far from the hallways - last night Greenpeace transportation - a 1972 VW van fitted with rickety benches - the property of Wella, our driver, was sent to take us home in the far suburbs of Jo'burg. Althought off to a good start we soon lost the trail and Wella took us deep into suburbs that did not appear on any map available to us. Late at night, a wheezing van full of tired folks hurtling down roads lined with homes surrounded by walls and barbed wire. The walls were very disorienting as every place looked like every other place Finally, we were rescued by the police who were waved down by the driver and who directed us far away from where we were to home. On the way in this morning the UN transport - less wheezy but still full of character - took us through Alexandra. A huge shantytown, Alexandra is right beside the suburb of Sandton where the Summit is taking place. This country is an incredible mix of staggering poverty and wealth. Reading this it sounds a bit trite but it still rocks you back on your heels to travel, in ten minutes from the depths of the shantytown to mediterranean style villas surrounded by razor wire and high walls.

The word today in the halls is about renewable energy. The champions, Brazil in the lead with reported support from Indonesia and Norway. Canada, my home country is nowhere on this issue. In the earlier meetings they were strong opponents. Gotta go - running out of time in the internet cafe.

-Peter

I found out today that the Green Members of the European Parliament (the Green MEPs) are staying in the same hotel as the US delegation.

(To fully appreciate the absurdity of this cohabitation, check out the Green MEPs Earthsummit positions on http://www.greens-efa.org/johannesburg )

On Sunday, one day before the Earth Summit formally commenced, the UN special envoy to the Earth Summit, Jan Pronk volunteered to be the barber in the first solar powered haircut of the Summit. Which prompts the obvious question... what kind of haircut does a diplomat give? Depends which country they represent…

You make an appointment with the US hairdresser – he doesn’t show up.
You make an appointment with the Canadian or an Australian hairdresser – he calls the US hairdresser and asks permission to use the sharp scissors. Or actually the permission to do anything.
You make an appointment with Venezuela – he says he will do a great haircut, then he uses dubious products. When you complain, he storms out and goes and buys the shop selling the dubious stuff. Then he sells it back to you at a higher price.
You make an appointment with the hairdresser from the EU, he makes a few changes like you ask, but he mostly ignores you completely. You end up looking like a weird compromise.
You go to a hairdresser from the G77, but you find that the hairdresser has a few pressing problems and talks your ear off before you realize he’s given you a very nice, but completely insane haircut.

In fact no matter which diplomat you went too, you’d eventually find out that you looked like you’d kissed a lawnmower and that your haircut made you seem like a social leper completely out of touch with the rest of the world. Now why does that sound familiar…? ;)

Here we are. Other than the four folks who set a great example and got here by bike from England, most of the 20,000 delegates who are here to talk about climate change got here by plane, and were greeted by massive ads from an automobile manufacturer. The energy we will be consuming while we talk about the planet's future comes from the fuels of the past: coal, nukes, and oil.

Just about everybody on the plane I took from Amsterdam were coming here for the summit. The recycled air was full of talk of Agenda 21, global warming, development aid, perverse subsidies. It's pretty easy to slide into a sense of cynicism about what all the talk is going to accomplish. Like Mahi said in her post below, there seems to be some need to remind people that this is the fate of our planet that we're talking about -- and the tiny little

And what the heck is Greenpeace doing inside these halls?

For the answer to that, you could ask our political chief, Remi Parmentier.

Back in the early 80s, much of Greenpeace believed we should never set foot in a meeting room. Treaty negotiations and arguments about brackets and compromising language were for others, and we needed to be the thin green line way out front. Need to stop radioactive waste from going into the North Sea? Get in a boat and stop it.

Remi just about singlehandedly woke the organisation up to the fact that your chances of winning rose exponentially by being out in that boat opposing dumping AND in the meeting room with the people who had the power to stop it. If that meant putting on a tie, somebody just had to swallow their pride and make that sacrifice. Remi turned people around not by talking about winning campaigns in the meeting halls -- he actually did it. And he did it by being as bullheaded, stubborn, and uncompromising inside the meeting halls as anybody out in the boats.

He learned, and taught us, the art of "political judo" -- achieving results greater than your size would suggest possible. One frustrated government official called him a "nasty little agitator" after a particularly gruelling experience at an international convention. Remi liked that so much, he put it on his business card.

Yesterday the news was full of images of Greenpeace activists being arrested as they scaled the walls of a nuclear power plant in Cape Town. Today our political team was arguing with the EU about setting a lofty-sounding renewables target that would be turned meaningless by the wrong definintion of the word "renewables." And next week, some of us will be out on the streets for A31.

If it takes all kinds to make a world, it takes all kinds to change it.

--b

Arrived at 10:30 on Saturday morning after 18 hours on South African Airways. My knees became more closely acquainted with the passenger seat in front of me than I ever thought possible. Numbness in the sitting area took ages to go away. And then the whirlwind. Our first meeting started at 4 pm Saturday and went into the evening. Our first meeting this morning started at 7:30a.m. Since arriving I have been inundated with reports, briefings and assignments. Trying to get my bearings at Sandton Square and Sandton Convention centre, where the conference is taking place, has been confusing. Security checks get tighter every hour. Last time I went into convention centre I went through at least 3 x-ray check points. Everything is getting ready today for tomorrow's opening. Negotiations over the plan of action text are going full tilt out there and in here. One of the big issues is whether or not Canada will support setting a world goal of 10% of all new power from renewables by 2010. The word back from those who've seen our delegation in action is that Canada is still in the dark ages on this one. Will update tomorrow.

-Peter Tabuns

Walking up the steps to the Convention Centre I overheard two delegates greeting each other. Suits, handshakes and the first phrase uttered was "Another conference eh?". How can something that takes place once every 10 years be just another conference? What worries me the most is that I have no idea how the delegates, the ones that make the ultimate decisions about the issues discussed here, feel about the Earthsummit. Are they aware of the responsibility that's been placed on their shoulders? Regardless of whether they're saying what we'd like them to say, do they realise that they're called upon to personally contribute (constructively or destructively) to protecting the environment and humankind? Because if not, maybe before expressing our opinion as Greenpeace on energy subsidies or on biodiversity or on whatever, we should hold a WHY YOU ARE HERE seminar for delegates. Because if they have no idea what they're doing here, maybe they should just go home.

In fact, most people in Johannesburg will probably be saying the same thing.

Welcome to our Earth Summit weblog where you will at least find out what some of the Greenpeacers at the Earth Summit are thinking.

Throughout the meeting we will give you the behind the scenes dirt, let you know how decisions about the future of the planet are really made. Some of it is likely to be shocking, silly, depressing and down right absurb. Whatever the case our group of highly skilled opinionators will let you know what is going on - at least from our perspective.

Stay tuned...