{"id":1481,"date":"2009-12-09T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2009-12-09T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:46:36","slug":"dueling-op-eds-on-copenhagen-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/12\/09\/dueling-op-eds-on-copenhagen-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dueling Op-Eds on Copenhagen Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with the good news first: Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052748703558004574583972813419070-lMyQjAxMDA5MDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html\">op-ed in today&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a><em><\/em> outlining the need for the Copenhagen talks to make progress toward an effective verification and compliance system in a final agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Fred says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The road to a serious global agreement goes through the U.S. Congress&#8230; The task, then, for U.S. negotiators and their counterparts, is to focus on establishing the fundamental building blocks for an effective treaty that can be finalized in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then lists those building blocks as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inclusiveness<\/li>\n<li>Financing<\/li>\n<li>Verifiability and compliance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052748703558004574583972813419070-lMyQjAxMDA5MDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html\">Read the whole piece<\/a> for insight into each point.<\/p>\n<p>Now the bad news: Sarah Palin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/08\/AR2009120803402.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">wrote an op-ed in today&#8217;s <em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> that purports to be about Copenhagen, but really just rehashes &#8220;climate-gate.&#8221; The piece tries to paint global warming as purely political issue and dismisses the underlying science. Read at your own risk. Media Matters has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200912090011\">thorough fact-check of the piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with the good news first: Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp wrote an op-ed in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal outlining the need for the Copenhagen talks to make progress toward an effective verification and compliance system in a final agreement. 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