We’ll be providing reports from the negotiations and daily summaries from key side events.

Apparently the next round of negotiations is about to begin in Poland soon, so it will be interesting to see if there’s any progress.

Gobsmacking that the SMH insults the intelligence of it’s readers in this way.

Lord Stern: I’ve worked in China and India for many years, and in the past few months I traveled to India, China and Brazil. There is a real deepening of engagement on the issue that is remarkable. Yet at the same time there is a real and tangible anger at industrialized countries, which contributed the most to the problem over the past 100 years as they grew rich on a carbon-heavy economy.
For developing countries, it’s really important that any climate deal be equitable. I think the framework for the Copenhagen negotiations [in 2009] is simple: if rich countries commit to at least 80% cuts in emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels, then developing countries will be willing to sign on to their own emissions reductions starting perhaps in 2020.

http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/11/26/stern-truths-climate-guru-still-hopeful-ahead-of-polish-summit/

http://investigativeblog.net/?p=417

Bob Carr’s masterful oratory skills are always a pleasure to witness. The one thing that riles him up more than ‘voodoo climate science denial’, he said, was the vaguely racist ‘but India and China’ meme. We should show, he argued, a rich country can transition to a low carbon economy.

Sure, we should, but if China, India, Brazil and Russia do nothing while we (and the rest of the world) transition to a low carbon economy we’re still up the creek.