We are not all doomed. Not yet

This week's Upside digest looks at the ways to tackle climate change and rediscover our natural spaces

As the world's leaders converged on Katowice, Poland, for this year's UN climate change conference, the mood was sombre. How could it be anything other, when in the opening keynote one of the world's foremost naturalists said we were all pretty much doomed?

While the numbers do not make for happy reading, there are plenty of people trying to do something about them. Our reporter Leyland Cecco writes this week from the Canadian west, where the province of British Columbia has come up with an innovative response to the global carbon splurge.