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Samoan-American Terisa Siagatonu has brought her stunning poem Layers to Paris to connect racism, social justice and climate change. She is part of the Spoken Word for the World crew.

The Paris climate negotiations aren't looking good for climate justice. Could developing countries walk out of the talks? Lidy Nacpil from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice gives a quick halftime summary from inside the summit.

There is a diplomatic silence over carbon trading at COP21, but a Paris climate agreement could offer a lifeline to carbon ‘offsetting’ schemes, while new rules could help build a global carbon market, writes Oscar Reyes.

Yesterday undercover police cracked down on anyone questioning the sponsors of a corporate “Solutions 21” event in Paris.

Young delegates inside the Paris climate summit were frustrated that the media were ignoring key issues. So yesterday, they took matters into their own hands, Morgan Curtis reports.

World leaders and the media are ignoring the only safe climate deal at Paris and so young people are taking action.

Yesterday a Volkswagen showroom in Brussels was stormed by animals and vegetables to protest VW’s appalling record on the climate.

Daiva Repečkaitė explains how Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are clamouring to make themselves look good at the expense of Greece.

Michael Flynn and Michelle Brané go head to head.

Dan Hancox on the skilled young people who, after thirty years of Spanish democracy, are finding their options increasingly limited.

The Wikileaks founder on state surveillance, media scrutiny and the Cablegate affair.

It's 50 years since West Papua first won independence, only for Indonesia to cruelly snatch it away. Nick Harvey reports on the tensions in the region.

‘Israel is not a democracy,’ said Israeli professor, historian and political activist Ilan Pappé in this interview with Frank Barat.

Prominent Australian barrister Julian Burnside explains how the government has moved the asylum system in a fairer direction – and how public attitudes are softening. Interview by Alasdair Soussi.