LSE, LONDON, UK -- Happy Thanksgiving everyone! What can I say? It is strange to hear from everyone traveling all over the place and starting to make the food for tonight from so far away, when everything here is just business as usual. Today I went to the UGM, a two-hour lecture, and a one-hour computer class, and now am in the library having just wrapped up my statistics homework for the week. That said I am off in about 20 minutes to meet up with some friends to have a little Turkey, so it's not all bad, and I look forward to calling home much later tonight when a lot of you are together for the holiday.
In the countdown to Copenhagen news, there was a major development today (much as there has been a major development everyday this week, really). China actually published emissions targets (a shock to most skeptics who figured they would never agree to any targets), and furthermore, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, will be attending the negotiations. Most observers noted in the past two months that there were two major obstacles standing between the EU and a deal in Copenhagen: lack of targets and presence by the US and China. Well, in the last two days all of those concerns have disappeared, as both Obama and Jiabao have announced targets and that they will be attending. Today's articles:
BBC: China unveils emissions targets ahead of Copenhagen:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8380106.stm
BBC: Amazon summit in Brazil aims to tackle deforestation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8380915.stm
BBC: China completes the climate cycle:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/
CNN: China's premier to join Obama at climate-change summit:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/china.climate.emissions/index.html
CNN: UN official issues climate rallying cry:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/25/climate.change.cop15.agreement/index.html
New York Times: China Joins U.S. in Pledge of Hard Targets on Emissions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/science/earth/27climate.html?_r=1&hp
New York Times: Corporate America Prepares, and Braces, for Emissions Rules:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/business/energy-environment/26emissions.html?hp
The Guardian: What do the US and China's emissions targets actually mean?:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/nov/26/us-china-targets-mean
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