By Lindsay Beyerstein
I'm posting from the UN Summit on Climate Change at UN HQ in New York. I'm wearing one of those special plastic translation earpieces.
World leaders are here to talk face-to-face before the big climate negotiations to be held in Copenhagen in December. President Obama is scheduled to address this morning's opening session.
The meeting is supposed to be an opportunity for all nations, from the richest emitters to the most vulnerable developing nations, to meet on neutral turf to discuss solutions to the climate crisis.
The one-day summit consists of public opening and closing sessions, separated by closed roundtable discussions among nearly 100 heads of state in attendance.
I'll be tweeting the proceedings. Follow me @beyerstein.
Very cool - send pictures too. :)
Posted by: publius | September 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Maybe people aren't commenting because they're busy following the Twitter feed she posted?
As to why people should care about this? Gosh, I dunno...it might have something to do with the fact that the heads of state of a number of world nations are all meeting to try and work something out. One would think that some people might be interested in international relations posts on a blog that frequently discusses them.
Also, dropping the f-bomb makes you sound silly. Come up with something more interesting next time, could you?
Posted by: Areala | September 22, 2009 at 06:23 PM
Cleanup on aisles 4, 10 and 11.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM