Copenhagen Week

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Copenhagen

The climate change convention in Copenhagen begins today. Diplomats from around the world will spend the week hammering out a frame work to deal with climate change. The frame work will ultimately lead to a replacement for the (in)famous Kyoto Protocol, which practically every nation on earth (e.g. those that have telephones) has ratified, except the United States. This time, the aim is to get the U.S. involved.

Among the other key issues is how to deal with the BRIC, or the rapidly developing  mega-economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Many of these nations will essentially ask the developing world to pay them to reduce emissions.

But of course the really big deal is how much the world will agree to reduce emissions. As the negotiations proceed, you can follow this bottom line in real time w/ the above scoreboard, from climateinteractive.org.

If you need catching up, the NYT has a timeline of climate change science and policy going back ~200 years!

Horns Rev offshore wind farm, Denmark