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Climate conversations - forget Durban: climate change action is happening on the ground

Written by Neil Bird

'Perhaps what we have learned most over the past decade is that global negotiations take on a life of their own and, at worse, appear little more than a self-serving exercise. And yet there is action taking place - just not in Durban. It is taking place in many countries, both developed and developing, where people realise the importance of local action and where governments offer national leadership.'