Drama from the 2009 negotiations

This account of what went wrong in 2009 in the Copenhagen climate negotiations - especially behind the scenes - is really worth reading; it quotes at the end the entirety of Yvo de Boer's rather unhappy "how did this happen" email (de Boer was the head of UNFCCC during the 2009 negotiations).

The short story is that the Danish government got overly ambitious in its attempts to manage (and pre-manage) the outcome, and this, at the very least, helped negotiations break down.

It's a really interesting story, though in some ways a complicating factor for me. My belief is that Copenhagen was never likely to be VERY successful (and assessments of the buzz going into the round, I think, suggests this is true) and hence this drama, though unhelpful, may not have made ALL that much difference; but how to prove it?