With ten thousand people descending on Bali in hopes of hacking out a negotiating framework to combat climate change, you might guess that a few of them brought laptops. You'd be right. There's no dearth of sites to stay abreast of the Bush administration's pro-global-warming stall tactics.
The most unfiltered source of information is the UN's repository of documents. They are also webcasting the conference live. San Francisco is 16 hours behind Indonesia, which puts the Twenty Seventh Session of the
Subsidiary Body for Implementation into direct competition with House and a Charlie Brown Christmas.
There are multiple screens in my house, but in case you don't have the same luxury, the UN is posting highlights on Youtube.
Various organizations and bloggers will also be covering and summarizing the news:
Oxfam:
Though much of the attention will focus on the US, China, and India, the erstwhile anti-poverty organization will be on-hand to help the less economically powerful have their say. David Suzuki Foundation:
The eminently quotable Canadian environmentalist's foundation is sending a delegation to blog the conference. Expect a deep environmentalist focus.
Enviromedia:
Austin-based sustainability consultants Kevin Tuerff and Valerie Davis offer their insights with an emphasis on the business aspects of global climate change policy. It's Getting Hot In Here:
The Youth Climate Movement, mostly college students and other assorted youngsters, is sending 50 people to cover the conference in video, photos, and plain old text. Their content is being crossposted in a ton of places including Bali Buzz, another portal for info on the conference.
Also keep your eyes on environmental stalwarts Grist, future-forward Worldchanging, all-climate-all-the-time Climate Ark, China's state-run Xinhua, startup-focused Earth2Tech, the NYT's DotEarth, and Wired Science, of course.
Video:
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, UN talking about framing expectations for Bali.
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