Heard Around Copenhagen

There’s some great coverage already coming out of the Copenhagen climate talks, and there’s going to be a lot more over the next 2 weeks. There’s also a lot of info that the UNFCCC is providing online. I’ll be doing a reoccurring roundup of some of my favorite stories combined with info you need to know:

Press Briefing on Sunday afternoon from Yvo de Boer:

The Protesters Plans: The New York Time’s Tom Zeller looks into the police and protester side of what the Danish police tell him is “the biggest police action we have ever had in Danish history.” That includes three dozen steel cages that can fit 350 potential rowdy protesters at an abandoned beer warehouse in Copenhagen.

Who Wants What: The Wall Street Journal maps out what countries have committed to emissions cuts and what next they need to do.

Giving Countries Own Emissions a Hard Look: The Telegraph and the Guardian (UK) report criticism of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s record on climate change, saying more aggressive action was ignored. Canada’s Globe and Mail also takes a look at Canada’s responsibility for the world’s rising emissions.

The Alternative Copenhagen: There’s a swirl of side events going on throughout Copenhagen over the next two weeks. One of them is this unfortunate climate denier conference, which Desmogblog reports on.

Saudi Arabia!: Climate skeptics have also emerged at the event, given the “leaked climate emails issue.” The New York Times looks at how the emails have caused Saudi Arabia to question the talks. Sigh. NYT’s Andy Revkin sums up my thoughts on the issue pretty well: “In recent days, an array of scientists and policy makers have said that nothing so far disclosed — the correspondence and documents include references by prominent climate scientists to deleting potentially embarrassing e-mail messages, keeping papers by competing scientists from publication and making adjustments in research data — undercuts decades of peer-reviewed science.”

Hamlet’s Lessons: From earlier this weekend, but I liked the comparison. Hamlet’s lessons for climate negotiators on Grist.org.

COP15 Live: Watch the speeches and press conferences live online here. And if you want the iPhone version, download this app the organizers made here.

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