Greetings from Copenhagen! There are huge gulfs between the delegations here, and the level of distrust seems high; a factor that only got worse after a version the supposed “Danish text” was leaked to reporters at the Guardian. More on that below. But what is even more striking is the gulf between even the supposed “serious” proposals and the science of climate change.

The Sustainability Institute’s Climate Interactive team has launched a new tool called the Climate Scorecard. Every day they are re-running the current proposals through their C-ROADS climate model (which is also being used by the US State Department) and comparing that result with a 1.5 degree to 2-degree goal. The results are not pretty:

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