The Road to Copenhagen

Researching the background to the COP15 next month has led me to do an inordinate ammount of Googling (which I accept is not entirely carbon neutral) checking facts and figures, the various groupings involved and the gap between rhetoric and reality. One of the key sites is the COP15 home page . It has a good number of new articles from different sources, though perhaps not suprisingly little or nothing about Climategate .

One of the best articles I read there is by UN Climate chief Yvo de Boer who summarises the main challenges at Copenhagen as being
1. How much are the industrialized countries willing to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases?
2. How much are major developing countries such as China and India willing to do to limit the growth of their emissions?
3. How is the help needed by developing countries to engage in reducing their emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change going to be financed?
4. How is that money going to be managed?

These last two questiosn were the ones driving the conference that I attended last week. The more you delve into these waters the murkier they become. More to follow on this topic when my article gets approved (factually rather than politically) and published.