As COP15 kicks off, the internet is overwhelmed with information, opinion and analysis of this summit. Here are our best recommendations online to stay updated with the most important climate summit for 2009:
COP15 has a two main blogs, both worth keeping tab on as they are updated regularly by experts and people actually at the summit: The Climate Thinkers blog is written by group of thinkers from all over the world that includes scientists, NGO-representatives, politicians, high level civil servants, businesspeople and many others. It provides unique comment on various aspects of climate change, as well as the summit itself. The Behind the Scenes blog will give you a peak into what goes into organizing a summit as large and as important as COP15.
Also, COP15 has a great YouTube channel where you can share your thoughts on the summit as it happens, and you can follow them on twitter, and Facebook, too. There is also a video blog for COP15 done in conjunction with WWF, where up to 10 videos will be posted every day throughout the summit.
Other than COP15 sources, the blog of Global Warming is Real is thorough and informative; Treehugger.com has an entire section on COP15 that will be providing opinion from the events summit. A blog set-up specially to track happenings at COP15 is http://copenhagencountdown.blogspot.com/ — this blog features a group of people across different sectors and nationalities who are all part of the key issues that will be discussed in Copenhagen. And finally, two newspaper blogs that dedicated to climate change that are covering the summit: NY Times green blog and the Guardian’s environment blog that is even doing some live-posting.
These however are just some of many good sources available online. If you know of any other quality sources to follow COP15, do leave them in the comments!
