It's the Giant Sleepover this weekend...

Last week, I attended the UN climate negotiations in Bonn. This was the first session of the negotiations since COP 18 in Doha in the run up to COP 19 in Warsaw this November. As a result of Doha, governments are working to implement the second period of the Kyoto Protocol (which limits the emissions of developed countries) and negotiate a new global climate treaty by 2015 - this will cover the emissions of all countries and provide technical and financial support to help developing countries cope with the impacts of climate change.

Last week the Government put out some updated statistics on living standards in the UK, including the figures on child poverty for 2011-12. This was an extremely thorough, valuable report. The chapter on children is more than 60 pages long, and presents a complex picture of child poverty - the UK is a world leader at producing this sort of research. 

For the last six months two hundred organisations joined forces to call for the end of world hunger.  It has been a busy couple of months with achievements and pauses for reflection along the way. Before we knew it the Nutrition for Growth Summit was on our door step; a key moment for all of us who are concerned by child malnutrition.

As 45,000 people were preparing to gather in Hyde Park for the Big IF rally on Saturday, I was with other IF campaigners at the Nutrition for Growth summit. There with us were Frank, 16, and Mwajuma, 18, two young activists from Tanzania who are in the UK at the moment supporting the IF campaign. Frank told delegates that he, like millions of other children around the world, didn't get the nutritious food he needed as a child. He spoke movingly about a simple vision for the future: "I don't want to see my children suffer like I did." It was the first of many moments throughout the day that sent shivers down my spine.

Stacey Pham from our sports programmes team travelled to The Oval in London last week to see children from local Rights Respecting Schools put their cricket skills to the test with with players from the West Indies cricket team.