17/12/09
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
17 December update - Highlights from Copenhagen
More world leaders will arrive today, including New Zealand PM John Key, who will attend the royal banquet later
tonight.
The US delegation claims it is confident an agreement will be reached, even as other delegates complain of deadlock on
key issues. Details of 'backroom deals' continue to leak out intermittently. Journalists on the ground will have their
work cut out for them keeping on top of events as the climate summit builds to a conclusion.
The SMC has set up a COP15 resource page here.
Highlights from the programme:
Official events:
Negotiations are reportedly delayed -- the official programme for today has not yet been released. Check this page for availability later this morning (Copenhagen time).
National statements from ministers/heads of governments are due to run today through to the early hours of 18 Dec.
Statement from New Zealand Going clean: the economics of China's low-carbon development: Lord Nicholas Stern and
Professor Rockstroem present a new report by the Chinese Economists 50 Forum and Stockholm Environment Insitute
Asger Jorn Rm
10:00-10:30 WHO: Protecting Health from Climate Change
Press Conference Rm
10:00-10:30 - University of Linkoeping: Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research: Changes in negotiation
leadership: results from a survey among delegates at COP 15
Asger Jorn Rm
11:00-11:30 Africa Group
Press Conference Rm
12:15-12:45 - Secretary-General: Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change
Asger Jorn Rm
12:15-12:45 UNFCCC: Executive Secretary
Press Conference Rm
13:00-13:30 Delegation of Tuvalu
Asger Jorn Rm
15:30-16:00 - Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House of Representatives
Press Conference Rm
18:00-18:30 UNFCCC: Executive Secretary
Press conference Rm
Side events (for those in Copenhagen)
9:00-10:30 - Bali to Copenhagen via Canberra: Climate Institute:- Australia's domestic and international climate
policies. The last two years have seen the climate change policy landscape in Australia transformed. In this session,
leading policy analysts and decision makers from government, NGOs, the business sector and academia will provide an
update and assess the prospects for the post-2012 period.
Halfdan Rasmussen Rm
14:30-16:15 - Strategies for a staged full inclusion of terrestrial carbon
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Terrestrial Carbon Group present progress and strategies for resolving
scientific, institutional and economic challenges to a staged full inclusion of terrestrial carbon in accounting for GHG
mitigation, starting with forest emissions and sequestration.
Radisson Blu Falconer Hotel, Falkoner Alle 9, 2000 Frederiksberg
16:30-18:00 Heading to 4 degrees C: Implications and ways out - University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute,
University of East Anglia
Cumulative emissions show that the 2°C target will require a complete reversal in global emissions trends. We report on
the impact and adaptation consequences of a global change above 4°C, and explore the options for avoiding this magnitude
of climate change.
Halfdan Rasmussen Rm
16:30-18:00 IFOAM, WFC: Bio-sequestration vs. geo-sequestration (CCS) - Organic solutions to climate change and food
security
Liva Weel Rm
Update from the AusSMC:
ONLINE BRIEFING ALERT - TIM FLANNERY LIVE FROM COP15
On Saturday at 9am AEDT/ Friday at 11pm Copenhagen time (*time subject to change), Professor Tim Flannery from Macquarie
University and the Copenhagen Climate Council will join us on the phone from his hotel in Copenhagen for a reaction to
the outcome of the COP15 Conference. An alert email will be issued separately.
Additional audio and video updates to their site
ENDS