I’m writing this from the opening session of the UN Climate Change Negotiations in Poznan, Poland. I’ve been here for a few days now, as part of the UK Youth Delegation. I’m in a huge conference hall listening to the UN and national politicians talk about how all 10,000 people assembled here need to work together to find a deal that changes the catastrophic path we are currently on.

This last week I have been incredibly busy (not least traveling here by train via Berlin), and I haven’t even had time to write up the Green New Deal event I helped organise on Wednesday with the New Economics Foundation at the Hub Kings Cross. In general I’ve been pleased to see that ideas for a green new deal have been spreading far and wide, with Obama and now Ed Milliband at the newly-created Department for Energy and Climate in the UK, all now showing explicit support for the concept.

However, the task is huge. Learning about the UN process in-depth over the last few weeks has demonstrated how complex the whole thing is, and how much bureaucracy and a few vested (irrational) national interests could stall the process. Having said that, we don’t know what will happen, and we have economic logic on our side.

I will be writing lots over the next few weeks, both here, on the UK Youth Delegation blog, and hopefully further afield. Please keep commenting, and let me know if there is anything in particular you’d like me to cover. In general my approach will be to try and simplify some of these unnecessarily complicated processes.