Copenhagen O9

We are 12 months away from the start of Copenhagen 09, possibly, to filch the ad slogan from that nation's most famous beer, the most important UN climate change conference in the world. More and more science is pointing towards the conclusion that there is now only small timeframe in which to take decisive action. In the run up, RSA Arts and Ecology will be doing a series of interviews with politicans, scientist and artists to focus minds on what has to be achieved there. To start with, we'll be running a short interview with Troels Faber of the Danish design studio NR2154, who, with his partner Jacob Wildschiødtz designed the new logo.

We are 12 months away from the start of Copenhagen 09, possibly, to filch the ad slogan from that nation's most famous beer, the most important UN climate change conference in the world. More and more science is pointing towards the conclusion that there is now only small timeframe in which to take decisive action. In the run up, RSA Arts and Ecology will be doing a series of interviews with politicans, scientist and artists to focus minds on what has to be achieved there. To start with, we'll be running a short interview with Troels Faber of the Danish design studio NR2154, who, with his partner Jacob Wildschiødtz designed the new logo.

It's an unusal piece of design. Logos are usually bold and assertive. This one's deliberately fragile, a mass of thin interconnections that solidify only at the edge of the earth. Getting the design right might be a footling thing compared to the scale of the task facing Copenhagen 09, but it's important symbolically. Unlike Kyoto, which this agreement supercedes, this time everything has to be right. COP15 (the fifteenth international Climate Change Conference - hence the name) will hopefully be the one that goes down in history for the right reasons.