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Interested in the latest on COP15?

15 December 2009

Check out what our bloggers have to report...

Steve Sawyer of GWEC and Rolf de Vos of Ecofys are blogging from the COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen.

Check out their list of posted blogs here:

Blog quote of the day:

While it is easy to despair about the complete waste of yet another precious day, we must also remember that the situation in Kyoto in 1997 was just as bad if not worse on the Wednesday evening of the second week. One prominent member of the US delegation reassured us that ‘there was still a deal to be had’.


 

 

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