Can the Copenhagen negotiations yield a successor to the Kyoto Protocol? Institute for Research on Public Policy contributor Velma McColl explains that challenges exist at the UN table. She adds that Canadian and American positions in Copenhagen will mostly be aligned but the hard global politics of climate change will bite in 2010, a tricky year in the American energy debate, which will set the tone here in North America and internationally. Read

From the December 14, 2009 edition of Canada Watch, a weekly summary of Canadian news and information sources compiled by the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.