Onward, CO2 soldiers: Richard Black paints a heroic word picture of bad-weather-preventing bureaucrats: "...delegations striding from conference room to conference room, their beetle brows and purposeful gaits testament to the precious cargo they might deliver"

BBC News - Climate ship plots course through the battering waves

The European Union hosts this week what could be one of the most significant meetings of the year on climate change.

...The giant container ships steaming into and out of the Durban docks were matched stylistically by the delegations striding from conference room to conference room, their beetle brows and purposeful gaits testament to the precious cargo they might deliver.