This image was taken during my time in Cancun at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The media stunt was put on by 350.org to bring attention to the rising sea levels due to climate change and the conference itself. The photo ended up running in The Wall Street Journal and on the Los Angeles Times Greenspace blog.

Close to 1,000 protestors march through downtown Cancun, Mexico during La Via Campesina’s Global Day of Action for Climate Justice in the second week of the 16th Conference of the Parties, on December 7, 2010. The march was organized by La Via Campesina International to protest the rights of indigenous peoples and farmers throughout the world. The organization believes programs that are being discussed at COP16 like REDD and carbon market initiatives are being imposed on peoples as false solutions to climate change.

Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, right, disputes the claim of polar bear decline with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Senior Attorney, Matthew Vespa, who dressed as a polar at the Pitaya Cancun Messe in the second week of the 16th Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico, on December 7, 2010.

International experts from Tajikistan and Central Asia discuss challenges facing glacial melt and water resource issues at the 16th Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico, on December 2, 2010.

United States Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern addresses the media at a press briefing during the sixteenth United Nations Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico, on Friday Dec. 3, 2010.