Paris diary: Planet COP 21 is a strange place but it has nothing on Planet Oz
by Lenore Taylor from on (#WBJ0)
Inside the climate talks, even the complimentary chocolate bars carry messages of climate justice. Given Malcolm Turnbull's challenges, it might be better to be handing them out to his 'friends' in the Coalition
In Paris it's a sea of pillars, decorated for each participating nation. There's always a grand entry to these climate summits - or conferences of the parties (COP) to the UN climate convention - as if to remind the thousands of delegates traipsing in each day that they are entering Planet COP.
After 21 years the annual summits have a familiar structure even though each takes place in a difference country.
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