UNFCCC

Five years ago, I was in Johannesburg, blogging the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Then the US took on all comers over toilets. For all sorts of reasons (some of which were, in fact, laudable), it held out against a target for getting basic sanitation to more poor people.

So we're off.

Ten thousand or so delegates are beginning to struggle through accreditation. Electricians are rushing to finish wiring up the convention centre. And the vanguard of an army of a thousand or so journalists have set up their laptops in the tent that will be their home for duration of the Bali meeting.

Proceedings started with the first of a hundred or so press conferences that we are threatened with over the next fortnight. Yvo de Boer, the UNFCCC's Secretary General, was the main draw.