This week, as world leaders meet in Durban for the annual international climate change summit, the chances of a legally-binding deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions seems to be receding, writes Elaine Graham-Leigh.
Designer and adbuster Noel Douglas is one of the few campaigners from Britain who managed to fly out before the volcano grounded flights and is filing daily reports from Bolivia at Globalise Resistance.
We are facing a rising tide of climate change denial fed by UK media outlets, which are increasingly influential internationally. That was the stark message at this week's Campaign against Climate Change public meeting on the skeptic backlash.