Journalists from all over the world come to Warsaw to report on what is happening at the 19th climate conference. In a short interview four of them describe their impressions. What are the most pressing climate issues in your home country? Are those issues addressed at all in this conference? Giuliana Miranda, Brazil: The intensification of the extreme weather events is a hot topic in Brazil.

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) recently released a new study that offers two different and probably controversial results. At first the researches say that everything is going to be extremely expensive the longer we wait until political leaders get active.

In the second part of our special blog series on water, Julian Claudi asks - is it necessary to privatize water, what are the different approaches around the world and what has happened in instances where a private corporation has indeed got its hands on the neighborhood pump or the household tap? To pick a prominent example of the kind of passions and conflicts water privatization can unleash, let’s go back to the year 2000 – to Bolivia.