While the EU fumbles, ice sculptures call for climate action

We're into the all-important last three days of United Nations climate talks.

It's at this point that government ministers - the people with the power to make decisions about whether their country signs on to a global agreement to tackle climate change - have started to arrive in Poland.

We're now looking for meetings to move from talking and stalling, to negotiating and deciding. But as things stand, decision makers are on the brink of agreeing a shambolic, watered down position that risks locking us into a climate disaster and could jeopardise the lives of millions of poor people who are already on the front line of climate change.

The problem? Some European nations are using the economic crisis as a reason to water down any serious plans.

The truth is that we don't have to choose between the economic crisis and the climate crisis - by investing in green jobs, and clean technology we can tackle both.

With the EU floundering, emergency action was needed in Poland to capture the attention of bleary-eyed delegates and journalists as they arrived for meetings.

The solution? A row of ten seven feet tall ice sculptures smack bang outside the conference centre - erected by the Oxfam team who are at the negotiations delivering the call for climate action to governments and the media.

Watch the video above to see how the sculptures are grabbing the attention of the cameras in Poland. And if you haven't done already, take our online action and call for all countries - rich and poor - to agree bold, global action to tackle climate change.