Copenhagen week 2: bla, bla, bla...act now

14.12.2009

Clare Hinkley

Week two of 'climate camp' today, after a weekend of public protests, and with world leaders due to arrive later this week, it's about time for some conclusions.

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and COP 15 President Connie Hedegaard recognised that political will needs to be translated into solutions now, but the outlook seems quite downbeat. Ed Miliband said today that he didn't think anything much would be agreed (great positive leadership there).

His department are hard at work though - as well as daily emails with the key developments, the DECC YouTube, Twitter and Flickr feeds have regular updates, and a weekly round-up email.

Interesting that as well as reporting UK government news, the updates feature the bigger picture of what's going on at Cop, which I think shows quite an enlightened view from DECC about their role in terms of the need to engage people in Copenhagen as a process, and not just their own policy objectives.

You can access it all via the UK's dedicated Cop site www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk

For an alternative view of the negotations, you can tune into 'the Stupid Show' hosted by Franny Armstrong each evening at 8pm CET, webcast via the Age of Stupid's website.

What it lacks in professional delivery, it certainly makes up for in passion. You can tweet in messages via #stupidshow.

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