Coverage from the Copenhagen Climate Congress (try saying that five times fast):
In The Guardian, Oliver Tickell describes the conference as “chaos” and wonders how those present can expect to save the world when they can’t even run a press conference.
TreeHugger reports on a talk by the University of Copenhagen’s Katherine Richardson, who proposed that climate change should be seen as a risk management problem:
Normally in our society, when there’s a risk [...] let’s face it, there are a lot of airports in this world. what are the chances of Al Qaeda hitting any individual airport. Probably very small indeed, but we spend an awful lot of money, a lot of effort in our society trying to minimize that risk. What we need to do is to understand that we need to minimize the risk of what we’re doing to the climate on our planet.
But the biggest story from the conference so far is a report that global sea levels could rise by over a metre by 2100.
