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15 Dec: Back on track... for now
Kyoto survived yesterday's latest rich vs poor showdown, so we're cautiously cooling our summit gauge. We're not getting cocky, though. Gordon Brown is jetting in early; clearly things are not as on track as they should be.
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Over to you, EU
After yesterday's deadlock, today was declared 'back on track' by the media after rich countries backed down, at least for now, on their apparent determination to bin the Kyoto protocol. Good news. For now, anyway.
Now we need action to make up for the lost time, and campaigners at the Copenhagen conference centre have turned to Europe to show the leadership the talks are so sorely lacking.
They staged a sitdown protest inside the conference centre today, calling on the EU to lead the way with an ambitious enough offer on emissions reductions which would be enough to keep global temperature rises below 2C.
The stop-start pattern of the talks so far has prompted UK prime minister, Gordon Brown, to bring forward his arrival at the talks to this evening. There's a real sense of the pace picking up here.
BBC UN climate talks 'back on track'
ITN Brown hopes to broker Copenhagen deal
Blog Standing by Africa, standing by Kyoto
Fossil of the day: US takes local delivery in London
Christian Aid was among the Stop Climate Chaos members to picket the US embassy last night in recognition of the Americans' winning the Fossil of the Day award.
The Fossil awards are our friends at the Climate Aciton Network's way of acknowledging the biggest obstructors of climate justice. Canada are the current leaders at Copenhagen.
The US picked up Monday's award for making zero financial commitment to helping devleoping nations - and for having a miniscule emissions-cut targets.
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Partner story: Rivers drying up in Mali
The River Niger is half the size it was when Bacoroba Doubmia, 58, first started fishing in it.
Now the subsequent drop in fish stocks means he struggles to earn enough for one meal a day for his seven children.
With the support of Christian Aids partner AED, the local council is helping fishermen like Bacoroba to become rice farmers, providing them with land that they can rent at a cheap rate, irrigation facilities and training in farming techniques.