Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Ecosystems Committee
International Climate Negotiations
Copenhagen - Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (“COP15”)
The following is a compilation of reference materials on the previous Copenhagen (COP-15) negotiations which is available for reference purposes.
- Official Sources
- Official page for COP15: http://unfccc.int/2860.php
- Denmark’s COP15 page: http://en.cop15.dk/
- Full list of COP15 side events: http://regserver.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP15
- The United States government’s information page: http://www.cop15.state.gov/
- (Unofficial) video of Lisa Jackson’s December 9 speech in Copenhagen is available here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
- Blogs and Media:
- A blog by a particularly well-known expert, Professor Michael Gerrard:
http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/ - A number of organizations with existing blogs or websites are providing expanded Copenhagen coverage. These include:
- Pew Center for Climate Change: http://www.pewclimate.org/blog
- The Heinrich Böll Foundation: http://www.boell.org/navigation/index-449.html
- NYU Law School’s Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law: http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/elc/dispatches/index.htm
- Pace Law School, whose dean emeritus is blogging from Copenhagen: www.law.pace.edu/copenhagen
- Grist, which has a reporter on site: http://www.grist.org
- Politico: http://www.politico.com/arena/archive/copenhagen.html
- BNA: http://climate.bna.com/subscriber/World.Climate.Change.Report.html
- LexisNexis: http://law.lexisnexis.com/practiceareas/environment-climate
- IISD Reporting Services: http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop15/
- The nonprofit Climate Solutions: http://www.climatesolutions.org/cs-journal/
- There are also blogs established by law firms solely to cover Copenhagen, including:
- K&L Gates: http://www.climatelawreport.com/
- Marten Law Group: http://copenhagenreport.com/
- Some nonprofits have also established Copenhagen resource pages:
- National Wildlife Federation, which discusses links to US policy: http://online.nwf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Copenhagen_MainPage
- World Wildlife Fund, which provides links to blog and Twitter resources: http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/international/
- A blog by a particularly well-known expert, Professor Michael Gerrard:
- General reference materials on climate change:
- U.S.EPA: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
- Columbia Center for Climate Change Law: http://www.law.columbia.edu/centers/climatechange

