Ken is attending COP 15 in Copenhagen. He will file occasional posts from the conference.

Late on Tuesday night, a draft text began circling through the Copenhagen meetings. This "Danish text" is purportedly the basis of the negotiations of a politically binding "Copenhagen Agreement." While this document would replace any sort of legally binding international treaty, its circulation does not necessarily preclude the creation of a legally binding text. It does certainly, however, look like things are headed toward a political agreement with cross-references to a number of decisions on specific issues to be taken here.

Of course, we have to recognize that it is early in the process, and there does appear to be significant pushback from developing countries on the political agreement concept since the document's release less than 2 hours ago, but it certainly is getting significant attention and could form the basis for the Conference's output.

Read the text of the document here.