World Wildlife Fund CEO Gerald Butts direct from Copenhagen on how the talks there might turn the climate change tide.

Gerald Butts is the President and CEO of WWF and a former principal secretary to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.

Yasmina Sekkat is an associate producer for The Agenda with Steve Paikin. She has an undergraduate degree in Film and Media Studies from Queen's University and a postgraduate certificate in Writing and Producing for Television from Humber College. She previously interned at The Agenda. Follow Yasmina on Twitter.

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The South Pacific Island Nations: Saving paradise...before it's lost. Part 1 of 'Countries in Crisis' series.

Barry Smit is the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change at the University of Guelph and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Jennifer Redfearn is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. For more information go to jenredfearn.com.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey is a National Geographic Society Fellow, anthropologist and an award-winning filmmaker.

Keith Chambers is a professor emeritus at the University of Southern Oregon and a social-cultural anthropologist.

Peter Prows is an attorney with the San Francisco law firm of Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP. He's been a legal advisor for the Permanent Mission of Palau to the UN since 2005 and is a founding board member of Islands First, a nonprofit organization designed to build the capacities of small island countries to represent themselves on environmental issues at the UN.

Alan Echenberg is a senior producer for the Agenda with Steve Paikin and has been TVO's Ottawa bureau chief since 1998. In his fifteen seasons in the Parliament Hill bureau of TVO, he has produced dozens of field documentaries and hundreds of studio interviews and discussions. He's covered five federal elections, one referendum, one ice storm, one Grey Cup, one Alanis Morissette concert, one hot-air balloon festival, several playoff collapses by the Ottawa Senators, and many other stories. Somewhere in there, his efforts on one particular show helped win TVO a Gemini Award. Follow Alan on Twitter.

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