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The conference continues to struggle with the developed and emerging countries at a log jam. Hillary Clinton add a proposal that may save the conference. The Plan would have Developed countries adding $100 B to emerging countries if they provide transparency in their reductions.
While there were others denouncing “Capitalism” the conference has turned to be a great place for smaller countries to provide their points on every topic possible and sometimes even the economy
President Obama has showed up along with other key leaders as the conference to do something for the next generation.

Copenhagen Comms: Green Days
Bill Royce of Burson-Marsteller and Anna Irwin and Paul Cohen of Ketchum Pleon blog from the Copenhagen summit.
Day 11 at COP 15: Deal or No Deal?
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Apologies for the clichéd title but whether or not we’ll get a deal tomorrow – and what the implications will be of whatever is decided – seems to be the only issue left to discuss here. The meetings on the sidelines of COP15 are mostly done and the UN has severely cut the number of observers allowed into the Bella Center, so there’s not much else to do but wait and hope (sorry, there’s that word again!).

For the first time all week there does seem to be some progress. Hillary Clinton’s proposal that major economies come up with $100 billion a year over the next decade for developing nations managed to shift the conference back into gear. Some procedural issues were addressed as well and real negotiations seem to be taking place. Yvo de Boer, the head of the UNFCCC, who must desperately want a deal tomorrow, called these developments “very encouraging,” adding that, “we now have clarity on the process, we have clarity on the documents that will be the basis for work, we have clarity the process will be transparent.”

Unfortunately we have no clarity whatsoever as to whether anything will be signed when the conference comes to a close tomorrow night. Will Obama save the day? Will he come away empty-handed (as he did when he last came to Copenhagen, to stump for Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid, which went to Rio)? Will the US or China blink first?

Whatever happens tomorrow, it’s worth bearing in mind that Copenhagen is the 15th of these conferences (hence the name COP15). By the time 2050 comes along, it won’t have mattered if real change took place at COP16, 17 or 18. These are extraordinarily difficult issues and progress gets made in fits and starts, when it gets made at all. Irrespective of the outcome, this has been an important – and, I believe, positive – two weeks.
Published Dec 17 2009, 11:53 PM by Paul Cohen
S insists on transparency
In partnership with other countries, the US will try to mobilise 100 billion dollars a year for climate aid by 2020, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The US insists that funding will only be granted if developing countries allow for full transparency of their emissions.
Marianne Bom 17/12/2009 16:55
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Copenhagen on Thursday just as climate negotiations had “reached a critical junction” and talks were “difficult”, as she said at a press briefing.

Hillary Clinton confirmed that the US wants strong action to combat climate change. She hoped that negotiations would take important steps forward within few hours, as “we all face the same challenge together”.

The Secretary of State confirmed that the US will pay its share of the short term financing of adaptation and mitigation in developing countries during the next three years. The US is also “prepared to work together with other countries” to raise 100 billion US dollars annually by 2020.

“In the context of a strong accord, in which all major economies stand behind meaningful mitigation actions and provide full transparency as to their implementation, the United States is prepared to work with other countries toward a goal of jointly mobilising 100 billion dollars a year by 2020 to address the climate change needs of developing countries,” she said.

Hillary Clinton stressed that the US wanted the funding to benefit the poorest and most vulnerable countries, and insisted that developing countries allow measurement, reporting and verification of emissions curbs as part of a deal.

Larger developing countries have – according to various media reports – so far rejected this proposal.

“It would be hard to imagine, speaking for the United States, that there could be the legal or financial commitment that I’ve just announced in the absence of transparency from the second biggest emitter, and now I guess the first biggest,” she said with a hint to China, Reuters reported.

“There has to be a willingness to move toward transparency in whatever forum we finally determine is appropriate. So if there is not even a commitment to pursue transparency, that’s kind of a dealbreak for us,” she said. (Photo: Henning Bagger/Scanpix)

Sarkozy: Failure in Copenhagen would be a catastrophe
European leaders expressed themselves in no uncertain terms when addressing fellow heads of state and governments attending the penultimate day of the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.
Rie Jerichow 17/12/2009 22:05
While climate negotiations continued at full stretch in the Bella Center on how to share the burden of carbon emissions cuts and the cost of global warming, European leaders took turns in delivering their peptalks in the plenary hall.

“There is less than 24 hours. If we carry on like this, it will be a failure,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned from the conference podium, according to Reuters.

“Time is against us, let’s stop posturing…. A failure in Copenhagen would be a catastrophe for each and every one of us,” he said in his speech, AFP reports.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addressed the conference with a plea for countries to “overcome obstacles”. He called for a 10-billion-dollar annual fund to help developing nations cope with climate change and hoped for a legally binding agreement within six months.

“We cannot permit the politics of narrow self interest to prevent a policy for human survival. For all of us there is no greater national interest than the common future of this planet,” Brown concluded his warning, according to The Guardian.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made an impassioned appeal saying that global warming is a task for all of us:

“We need to show the world works together, as we did in the economic and financial crisis. Please, in this spirit, let us all work over the next 24 hours so that tomorrow we will be able to meet again in this hall and show that we have understood, life cannot go on as it was. The world needs to change. Let us all work together fruitfully in these 24 hours,” Angela Merkel said, according to Euronews.net. (Photo: Scanpix/AFP)

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