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In addition to side events held at ==Negotiating Texts== Early in the first week of the Copenhagen conference a a draft of the convention center (see [[COP15/Side EventsCopenhagen Agreement]]), there will be public protests outside was leaked to the meeting''Guardian''. According The draft climate change agreement, which has also been referred to as the "Danish grouptext", Klimax had been developed by the "[[Circle of Commitment]]"e are going to make that summit one comprising representatives from the governments of the leaders will never forgetUK, US, Denmark and Australia. We are going to raise our voices in ways they cannot escape. We are going to tell them that we are not going to accept them playing Russian Roulette with our climate anymoreThe sweeping nature of the proposed changes provoked outcry from many developing country delegations. They are the A few yet days later preliminary draft texts were released by the consequences two main sub-groups of their actions affects every being on the planetCOP15 Conference. We These are going to protest using Nonviolent Direct Action because we cannot allow some delegates to endanger the face of the planet anymore. It is time to take the power back."<ref>: * [http://klimax2009unfccc.orgint/ "Klimax"files/kyoto_protocol/application/pdf/draftcoretext.pdf Chair’s Proposed Draft Text] on the Outcome of the Work of the [[Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention]], Klimax website, accessed September 2008.</ref><ref>(AWG-LCA) (Pdf) * [http://green-blogunfccc.orgint/2008files/08kyoto_protocol/22application/climate-change-demonstration-in-denmarkpdf/ "Climate Change Demonstration in Denmark"awgkpchairstext111209.pdf draft text] of the [[Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol]], ''Green Blog'', August 22, 2008.</ref>(AWG-KP) (Pdf)
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The official Denmark website states that the "the goals of the climate change convention are to stabilize the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a level that prevents dangerous man-made climate changes. This stabilization must occur in such a way as to give the ecosystems the opportunity to adapt naturally. This means that food safety must not be compromised, and that the potential to create sustainable social and economic development must not be endangered."<ref> [http://www.cop15.dk/en/menu/About-COP15/Background-to-the-Climate-Change-Convention-and-the-Kyoto-Protocol/UN-Climate-Change-Convention-UNFCCC/ "UN Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC)"], Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, April 9, 2008.</ref>
== Prospects for a Post-Kyoto Agreement ==
