This text is a recipe for disaster, and many developing countries will not be able to convince people back home that they have come back with a good deal.

Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing "rogue states," opposing "Islamic fundamentalism," or containing China.

What we are precisely all about at this point is making sure that a deal doesn't happen, to show the developing country governments there are large numbers of people from civil society representing the interests of people in the developing world and elsewhere that will be very, very dissatisfied, very, very upset if a deal were made.

It's good that he came down, we have been long waiting. But he never made any commitment to end projects that are controversial.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.