The international climate conference COP15 kicked off abroad today, and on the agenda for the multitude of countries in attendance: figuring out concrete plans to deal with climate change and those pesky greenhouse gases.
The host of the event, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, suggested an alternative agreement, outlining environmental goals countries should strive for, but not making these goals binding. His theory contends if each country can use the document as a road map, these changes could be implemented domestically, and then on the global stage.
Conference attendees are also expected to talk deforestation (less of it), temperature change (less of it), and email hacking (less of it).
This summit will be chock full of research and politics, and the best part for people like myself without a plane ticket to Copenhagen? Live blogging! Multiple different entities will be documenting the events as ideas come and go throughout the summit. Check out the action here, to start.
My personal favorite blog entry?
"2.30pm:
Back in the main hall of the Bella centre the conference is running late. Hedegaard sternly asks delegates to promptly return from lunch in future. They are now running through an alphabet soup of organisational matters on the agenda, such as "Item 2 (a) of the supplementary provisional agenda]"
Let's hope this summit is successful, for our trees' sake.
-Beth
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