What happened?

Copenhagen is over and it looks like Hopenhagen is too!










http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/dec/19/copenhagen-climate-change-deal

What will happen next? Leave your comments.

Poor versus rich? Copenhagen - the final week

Last week it emerged that poor countries are worried that the deal struck in Copenhagen this week will not commit the rich countries to cutting enough of the CO2 emissions to prevent a 2 degree increase in temperature. The main reason behind this seems to be that they do not want to damage their economies.

Meanwhile the poorer countries around the world also want more support in using green technologies so that they can reduce their CO2 emissions and id dealing with the climate change. They point out that it wasn't them put the CO2 in the atmosphere which is causing the current problems.

Will a deal be struck this week and will it make any difference. Continue to have leave comments below and let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Here are some interesting links which continue some of the points you made in your comments last week:

On people not believing in climate change:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/12/bad-science-goldacre-climate-change

On how some of the poor nations feel:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/13/copenhagen-climate-summit-poor-nations

Video of people living with climate change:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/dec/12/climate-change-photography

Pictures and stories of people living with climate change:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2009/dec/12/copenhagen-climate-change

(PS - not very good of me to have all my sources from one website, I was trying to save time, so please leave any links you can find in your comments.)

Hopenhagen

The Copenhagen climate change summit was opened this morning by the Danish prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen saying that "For the next two weeks  Copenhagen, will be Hopenhagen. We will try to keep you updated with any news coming from "Hopenhagen" so keep checking www.GillottsScience.com .