The United Nations Climate Change conference started today in Copenhagen, Denmark, bringing together world leaders to talk about efforts to reduce the world’s harmful emissions. Here are some helpful resources to understand what’s going on across the pond.
The newly relaunched PBS NewsHour has a fact sheet outlining possible outcomes and key players.
Oregon Public Broadcasting brings the climate debate to a local level — by taking a look at a different Denmark — Denmark, Oregon. The changes that community has seen go beyond the weather, one example being how the supply of fish to restaurants is working to be more sustainable.
Over the last decade, team members voluntarily put several square miles of their fishing grounds off limits, in a marine reserve.
And right now, the fishermen are trying to cut out the middlemen and sell directly to restaurants.
Back on the ground in Copenhagen, Twin Cities Public Television’s David Gillette is producing illustrated cartoon essays from the floor of the conference. Here’s his first installment:
But not everyone is optimistic about that Copenhagen will be a success. Tunku Varadarajan posted A Skeptic’s Guide to Copenhagen in The Daily Beast this morning, criticizing that the event has grown too large to have an impact.
