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 In partnership with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Green Building Pro has compiled a series of documents, comments on, and reactions to the Copenhagen Accord. We welcome your comments.
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 BBC NEWS
Asian giants China and Indonesia have hailed the Copenhagen UN climate summit outcome, despite its cool reception from aid agencies and campaigners.
Beijing's foreign minister said it was a new beginning, and Indonesia's leader said he was pleased with the result. Earlier, US President Barack Obama defended the accord he helped broker with China and other main powers. The non-binding pact, called the Copenhagen Accord, was not adopted by consensus at the summit in Denmark. Instead, after two weeks of frantic negotiations, the 193-nation conference ended on Saturday with delegates merely taking note of the deal.
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 BBC correspondents around the globe report on the reaction to a climate change deal set up by Brazil, China, India, South
Africa and the US at the UN conference in Copenhagen.
CHRIS MORRIS, DELHI, 1035 GMT
Because of its size and location, India has an awful lot to lose if steps to control climate change are unsuccessful. But the government will be reasonably satisfied with the compromise deal which seems to be emerging from the summit.
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 The Copenhagen talks' mandate is muddled, but some wonder whether markets won't save the day.
By Jim Tankersley
LA Times
December 20, 2009
Reporting from Copenhagen
When two weeks of climate negotiations finally wound to an overtime finish in Copenhagen, the goal of a new binding treaty to combat global warming still looked elusively far away. And, even for climate activists, the question was: "Is that so bad?"
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 The Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers, and other heads of the following delegations present at the UniteNations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen: [List of Parties]
In pursuit of the ultimate objective of the Convention as stated in its Article 2,
Being guided by the principles and provisions of the Convention,
Noting the results of work done by the two Ad hoc Working Groups,
Endorsing decision x/CP.15 on the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action and decision x/CMP.5 that
requests the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments of Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol to continue its work,
Have agreed on this Copenhagen Accord which is operational immediately.
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 BBC NEWS
Copenhagen accord: key issues
The BBC's environment correspondent Richard Black analyses key elements of the US-backed climate deal agreed in Copenhagen.
CLIMATE
One widely-accepted definition of "dangerous climate change" is that it begins at a global temperature rise of 2C.
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