They say seeing is believing, and today I saw. After waking up late and missing a side event that featured malume, who has held our hands through many a environmental jargon jungles, Blessing Karumbidza, and receiving the news that my comrade Wendy, had been booked off work, I headed off on a Toxic Tour.

I had been begging Bongani from the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance to take me on for months, and today I got my chance. Headed by Durban environmental activist…

Waking up this morning was difficult, I still had a lot of sleep in but thanks to my inner clock, it was a bright and early start to one of the most anticipated day on my COP17 calendar; the Global Day of Action. So much for my early rise because I only got to the march as it reached ICC, where they stopped for speeches.

I spent the morning playing navigator for a colleague but in retrospect this was a blessing since I missed about ¾ of the walk under the scorching sun. As soon as I…

Although I have attended many climate change meetings, workshops, seminars and gatherings, I must admit I am nowhere near sufficiently clued up. Add my inexperience in the career I have chosen, not having yet even completed my studies, I was eager to attend the Climate Change Communication Forum hosted by Oxfam and the University of China.

The speakers including the director of the Research Centre of  Journalism and Social Development and Reform at Renmin University of China, Tim…

“We, the youth, see earth differently.”  These were the words of 16 year old Nkosinathi Mncube, a jubilant winner at the Youth Art Climate Change Art Awards which took place on Monday. The awards were a crucial part of the Youth Summit on Climate Change which takes places alongside the Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban.

Children from around South Africa submitted art to demonstrate how their school can be a green zone, and how their programmes can be…