{"id":1170,"date":"2009-12-18T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2009-12-19T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T21:20:22","slug":"the-clamor-about-climate-change-cop15-and-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/12\/18\/the-clamor-about-climate-change-cop15-and-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clamor over Climate: Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen was due to end Friday. But rising pressure from &#8216;the developing world&#8217; i.e. the 130 nations of the G77<sup>1<\/sup> and the leak of a confidential memo to the UN Secretariat admitting that the carbon emission targets so far are too high,\u00a0 raised the question of whether world leaders will stay on. The Guardian&#8217;s Copenhagen Twitter channel reflected confusion about what press conferences would occur when. First the rumor was that Obama would give a press conference, but then it turned out he was only addressing the Whitehouse press corps. Then he left due to weather in Washington. The EU delayed it&#8217;s press conference for another round of talks. The &#8216;deal&#8217; wasn&#8217;t actually &#8216;sealed&#8217; until the wee hours of Saturday\u00a0 morning, well after Ban Ki-moon had declared a highly qualified victory.\u00a0 It was agreed by the Conference of Parties to &#8216;<strong>take note of<\/strong>&#8216; the agreement brokered by Obama, between the U.S., China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>As of 11:00 AM EST<sup>2<\/sup> on 12\/19\/09, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theuptake.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Uptake . Org<\/a> is webcasting the press conference of the Climate Action Network on its Copenhagen 1 channel.<\/p>\n<p>Obama:\u00a0 Nothing legally binding. Kyoto was legally binding but everybody fell short anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night, close to midnight Copenhagen time, <a href=\"http:\/\/the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org\/en\/videogalleryView\/id\/2700\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Uptake.Org interviewed Naomi Klein and Bill MkGibben<\/a>. Naomi pointed out that of the big five agreed on the 3+ degree nonbinding agreement &#8211; U.S. , China, India, Brazil, and South Africa &#8211; that they would have probably agreed to a stronger carbon reduction budget if the U.S. had put it on the table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneclimate.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Climate<\/a> interviewed Amy Goodman, &#8220;This is another olympic failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>There were 77 developing nations when the group was formed. It now has 130.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>I suspect it&#8217;s running on a loop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen was due to end Friday. But rising pressure from &#8216;the developing world&#8217; i.e. the 130 nations of the G771 and the leak of a confidential memo to the UN Secretariat admitting that the carbon emission targets so far are too high,\u00a0 raised the question of whether world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}