Today has been a bit intense. The YES Men played a huge prank on the Canadian delegation, government and people, Canada won the 3^rd place Fossil of the Day award along with Saudi Arabia. It has also been confirmed that only 30% of NGO delegates will be allowed to enter the Bella Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday, only 1,000 will be able to enter on Thursday and 90 will be able to enter on Friday.   The infamous Yes Men, well known for impersonating politicians and making authentic looking policy commitments, chose the Canadian government as the target of their most recent joke. Today around 2pm local time, the Yes Men released a fake media release saying that Canad had drastically improved its climate targets to 40% below 1990 levels by 292. This target is in line with IPCC science. They also made a fake Environment Canada webpage as well as a fake Washington Post article about the announcement. A few hours later it all became...

Just got back from spending an afternoon strategizing about next week with other members of the Climate Action Network International. Venue was a large classroom at Copenhagen University. We broke up into smaller groups to focus on 4 major issue areas: Mitigation targets for industrialised countries, adaptation, finance and legal matters.

One conclusion. We are nowhere near where we should be in terms of a moderately successful outcome for avoiding dangerous levels of climate change. The mitigation pledges of industrialised countries like Canada are nowhere near what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change demands. Financial promises for financial aid remain below expectations and the promises that have been made so far are not really additional, i.e. 'normal' development aid will be redirected towards climate goals. Still a lot of work in the week ahead.

One representative of Greenpeace China made an interesting comment: In reponse to a question about...