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The Road to Copenhagen

At a Glance

COP15 takes place from Dec. 7 - 18.

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World leaders have called for a comprehensive, ambitious and fair international agreement on global warming to be clinched in December.

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The conference is expected to attract between 12,000 to 15,000 delegates.

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A citizen conference, Klimaforum09, will run parallel to the official one, and the UNICEF Children's Climate Summit will take place before COP15.

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Many argue that the outcome in Copenhagen depends on the progress of global warming legislation in Congress. What's the latest? Find out here.

The COP15 logo is composed of 192 lines, one for each UN member state, and symbolizes the connections between everything on our planet.

On December 7, more than 10,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries are expected to gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, where negotiators will attempt to craft an international agreement on how to arrest global warming. The Copenhagen talks are the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (hence, COP15), which was adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and updated in Kyoto in 1997. Numerous recent international conferences, in Indonesia, Poland, Thailand, Spain, and elsewhere have led to this summit. 

Earthjustice in Copenhagen

Earthjustice attorneys Martin Wagner (pictured) and Erika Rosenthal will be in Copenhagen providing support to NGOs and highlighting the connections between global warming and human rights. Martin Wagner will be blogging live amid the swirl of conference happenings to provide observations not to be found elsewhere. Subscribe to automatically receive his posts next month.

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