Where are the captains of industry? Where is the leadership? Who is at the helm? Where are the religious leaders? Why are the NGO's being excluded.

If you do not know the answers to these questions then count yourself among many of use here who are standing for substantial legally binding targets to save the Earth and our species and yet cannot see what good this meeting is really going to do.

The only reassurance I have been given by my fellow small island state delegates is that this is the way it always is and that this cop is so far no different from any other.