The Climate Change Conference in Cophenhagen is a two week summit. BBC News reports that Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen has described the UN climate summit in Copenhagen as an “opportunity the world cannot afford to miss”. BBC News - Copenhagen summit urged to take climate change action

What is the Copenhagen climate change summit?

The UN meeting is the deadline for thrashing out a successor to the Kyoto protocol, with the aim of preventing dangerous global warming. It will run for two weeks from 7 December and is the latest in a series that trace their origins to the 1992 Earth summit in Rio. Q&A: Copenhagen climate summit

One of the issues that surfaced centered around leaked emails that downplayed the role of humans in the climate change crisis.

Reuters reported today that according to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “Nothing that has come out in the public as a result of the recent email hackings has cast doubt on the basic scientific message on climate change and that message is quite clear — that climate change is happening much, much faster than we realized and we human beings are the primary cause.” Human role in climate change not in doubt: UN’s Ban

Nonetheless the leaked texts have created an uproar.  It was reported today that “Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol.” Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak

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