Day 5: OMG! Too Much Work

Well, 6:30 AM wake-up, so I can make it here for the opening youth announcements, and important documents for the day.

Canada is currently in fourth place overall in the Fossil of The Day Awards, which are awards given to the country, or countries for their obstruction of progress on global climate talks.

First Place: Annex 1 countries (developed countries) for arriving unprepared to cut carbon emissions to a state that will allow for at most a 2 degree Celsius increase in global temperature.

Second Place: Sweden, Finland, Austria, for not fully accounting emissions from forest management.

Third Place: Canada, because of Environment Minister Jim Prentice saying, we "won't be swayed," by the Copenhagen, "hype."

I have been researching Adaptation Policy furiously, and have been assigned as the bottomliner (person who does the majority of work essentially), for the Youth Adaptation Policy group. Later next week we are presenting our views on the policies in place, the suggestions currently made, and what we feel needs to be done. So tonight being asleep by 4 AM is a goal of mine.

Today I will also be attending many meeting on CDM, (Clean Development Mechanism), and I hope to be able to ask one of the members of the UNFCCC Executive Board on CDM's and Cap and Trade a question about their views. Later I will be attending the premier screening of the film, "The Story of Cap and Trade," and will hopefully be able to summarize the views on that for you later that night.

I will be returning home with lots of "propoganda," from both sides of this arguement so get ready for an intelligent discussion! :)

From,

Zack Bernholtz