It's the final day of the UN climate change conference in Cancun. Negotiations have continued throughout the night and it is agreement over the future of the Kyoto protocol and the legal form of any agreement which is still delaying progress.
As campaigners in the UK took part in a stunt outside the Japanese embassy, here in Cancun an attempt to stage another stunt was blocked by the organisers. It is a symptom of the reduced access civil society has had to the negotiations this year, which has just prompted a protest by the Climate Justice Now network. Campaigners are standing near the main hall with UNFCCC tape over their mouths - their message being that the global South is being silenced.
And the only thing that binds rich countries to cutting their emissions - the Kyoto protocol - is sick. Can Japan, Russia, and other countries save it, and the world's people from an uncertain future? We still have a few hours to find out...
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