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COP15 rolls into the weekend with a packed schedule of press conferences and meetings, many of them science-related, and several focusing on agricultural emissions related issues. See the COP15 website for details of webcast press conferences. The SMC has set up a COP15 resource page here. 09.30 – 10.30: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [...]

Interested in the entire newsletter?  Sign up for it here, and read archived editions here. (Links for both can be found on the SMC homepage) Shaky start for Copenhagen Week one of the COP15 climate change talks passed in a blur of press conference and closed door meetings while the airing of the Danish text [...]

Stuff: New Zealand gets climate ‘fossil’ award NZ Herald: Philip Temple: Deniers don’t have a rapidly melting glacier to stand on 3 News/RadioLive: New Zealand gets dishonourable award at Copenhagen Stuff: New Zealand’s emission cuts targets backed The NBR: Science community rallies in face of ‘Climategate’ The Press: Denmark set to reveal plan

NBR – Leveraging off Copenhagen reaches new height of logic Stuff National – NZ neutral on ‘Danish text’ The Press – Expert queries panel’s temperature forecast Dominion Post – NZ to consider disputed ‘Danish text’ NZ Herald – NZ knew about leaked ‘Danish Text’ Radio NZ – Split among developing countries at climate conference TV3  [...]

Scientists attending the COP15 conference in Copenhagen last night unveiled a Dow Jones-style “climate-change index” which aims to assign an index number illustrating year to year changes in the climate. The index is the work of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and takes a basket of factors – carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature change, sea level and [...]

Day two at Copenhagen saw the release of the WMO’s last global temperature data, which suggests the current decade is the warmest on record. But the conference has also been dominated by the appearance of a leaked report dubbed the ‘Danish texts’. According to the Guardian, which published the draft report, the agreement “hands more [...]

Louise Gray from the NZ Herald investigates the impact of climate change on Bangladesh. The region was identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as having the world’s most vulnerable climate. An excerpt: (read in full here) “…Bangladeshis are living on the margins, their aim not much more than survival, yet they and [...]

Eloise Gibson from the NZ Herald gives us the stats on the officials heading to Copenhagen to represent New Zealand in the climate negotiations. Read full story here

Here you will find resources, information and multimedia available to aid the media in the coverage of the COP15 climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. COP15 coverage in the New Zealand Media COP15 analysis on Sciblogs.co.nz AusSMC photos available to the media AusSMC video available to the media The SMC will be issuing daily updates on [...]

COP 15: Is a deal on the cards? The Copenhagen climate conference kicks off over the weekend and while there won’t be many (if any) New Zealand scientists attending, the New Zealand media will be well-represented (six journalists will be on the ground covering it) and the conference has high-level political buy-in with the Prime [...]