Crucial climate negotiation texts go public

There are 200 days to go before world governments gather in Copenhagen for a last-ditch attempt to agree on whether or not to save the world.

The crucial negotiations to be held in December at the COP15 climate summit will decide on a successor for the Kyoto protocol. Now it turns out the meeting will be exposed to public scrutiny as never before: the UN has just released the negotiating texts.

I’ve just had quick scan through one of them. The usual policy jargon this time reads like a menu, or a multiple-choice exam

…Essentially, governments are invited to go through the 53-page menu of futures and say just how much they want or are willing to sacrifice in order to stall climbing temperatures, rising sea levels, mass extinctions, dwindling food supplies and more.

…Could it be that the UN has finally found a way of making governments play ball?

New Scientist