Coming from cold and snowy Copenhagen and braving the snowstorm and delayed trains, we are sad to report that the so-called Copenhagen Accord leaves us with business as usual and no legally binding commitment to reduce emissions in the world. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized the process of passing the accord as undemocratic. The Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA) composed of nine Latin American countries sharply pointed out that the so-called Copenhagen Accord did not undergo the normal negotiating procedures.

The climate negotiation in the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen has come to a sour end. The world’s high expectation for a meaningful and binding agreement is doused with icy cold water by a nonbinding deal dubbed as “Copenhagen Accord” —a deal primarily brokered by the most powerful and leading polluter country in the world—the United States.

San Roque spill blamed for floods
By Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:23:00 10/13/2009

MANILA, Philippines—Water equivalent to a billion balikbayan boxes tumbling at the rate of 5,000 cartons per second hit 10 hapless towns in Pangasinan province on Thursday when the San Roque dam spillways were opened amid a storm drenching and swirling floodwaters, scientists say.

GMA News - http://www.gmanews.tv/story/174438/suits-mulled-vs-san-roque-dam-operato...
Business Mirror - http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/top-news/17204-suit-vs-dam-operators-e...
Manila Times - http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/component/content/article/42-roksto...
Inquirer - http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20091013-2297...

This situation was made more clear as Typhoon Ondoy left widespread flooding in many countries, unleashed unprecedented rainfall in Metro Manila and caught a lot of people unprepared both in the Philippines and Vietnam.