The Sinocanadian

The Sinocanadian is going to be blogging to you live from Copenhagen this year, December 8-18, on Climate Change issues related to China, Canada, the two of them together, and the world!

We’ll be posting on four streams as noted earlier on the main blog site:

1. Biofuels
   1. Forest-based products
   2. grassland conversion and land use change
   3. second generation biofuels and policy implications
2. low carbon fuel standards
   1. how to incorporate the ecological risks of low carbon fuel standards into effective climate change mitigation policy?  Is this problem solvable?
3. Registries
   1. What are the practical issues for registries in developing countries?  How do you deal with incomplete data, and what level of precision is needed?
   2. Why should organizations in developing countries join registries?  What’s the benefit and what are the drawbacks?
4. Arctic peoples
   1. What role do arctic peoples have in defining their own futures?  How will their cultures help them to adapt?  What innovative strategies or tactics are emerging in these places that could be mimicked in the south?
   2. What are the major changes going on in the arctic?  What can science tell us, and what is traditional knowledge telling us?  Does the difference matter?
   We’ll start posting introductions to these topics over the next few days leading up to the conference, and post regularly as they are discussed throughout the event, Dec 8-19.