Well, the dark skies are persisting over Durban for the climate change talks, but it’s nothing in comparison to the storm over the UK’s vetoing of the new European agreement over fiscal policy and regulation.
There’s a gloomy sky over Durban today on the penultimate day of talks. Richard Black of the BBC is saying that the talks “lack urgency” and from where I’m sitting he seems to have a point.
Former UK deputy prime minister, John Prescott, says there is a "conspiracy against the poor" that could destroy attempts to get a viable climate change agreement.
Rich countries risk wrecking vitally important international talks on a climate agreement, Christian Aid has warned, following the close of the latest UN negotiations in Bonn.
The Kyoto Protocol is "an important step forward towards a just and sustainable global climate policy regime" but "much more radical reductions [of greenhouse gas emissions] are urgently needed," the World Council of Churches' executive committee has declared.