Back home in Devon now. Train, boat, train (and just a bit of cycling). A luxurious way to travel quite a long distance!

Was the trip worth it? Well for me, an environmental campaigner for whom climate change has become the overarching mother of all issues, absolutely. Dipping into events at the Peoples Summit has also pushed ‘climate justice’ much more into my face. At work, I focus on the impacts on damaging change on nature, but I am now much better equipped and motivated to to parallel this with a massive sense of global injustice about where the impacts are going to be felt hardest and most devastatingly.

With three days to go at the official climate negotiations, the time for posturing rapidly shifts to a focus on leadership for real change - for a safer climate. Will Obama et al  pull it off, who knows?

Back home in Britain, I suppose at least I sense a real tipping point. Given the deep cynicism amongst us all about politics, the contrary nature of humanity, the vested interests at play, that more than half of Brits support real change here at home is a great sign.

Plenty more to do on all this in 2010.

Mark