"Shropshire will be recognised as a leader in responding to climate change" - Shropshire Council Core Strategy, page 26

"Get on with it!" - Sir John Houghton, when he visited Stretton in October

"I was born in 1992. You have been negotiating all my life. You cannot tell us that you need more time." - Christina, 17, from the Solomon Islands, addressing delegates at Copenhagen.

“In a single day, in a single space, a spectacle was played out in front of a disbelieving audience of people who had read and understood the stark warnings of humanity’s greatest scientific minds. And what they witnessed was nothing less than the very worst instincts of our species articulated by the most powerful men who ever lived”. - Observer at the last day of the Copenhagen Summit