The United Nations Climate Change conference will take place in the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark between the 7th December of 2009 and the 18th of December 2009.

According to the official website the Climate summit could be summed up in these words:

In Bali all parties agreed on the Bali Action Plan, and with that came the working conditions for the negotiations up to COP15 in Copenhagen. In light of this decision was partly the increased focus on quick action in the latest report from the IPCC. It was also partly a growing acknowledgement of the fact that 2009 represents more or less the last chance to achieve an agreement, if this agreement is to be approved and ratified in time for it to come into force after the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

Developments in the world since the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997 show that a new agreement is needed. China has replaced the USA as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and the price of oil has soared. This is a reminder of the fact that fossil fuels do not merely pollute; they are also a source of energy whose reserves are constantly being reduced.

The UNFCCC’s history shows that countries can quickly move forward together, but also that they risk coming to a standstill because of internal disagreement. The ambition of the Danish government is that the COP15 conference in Copenhagen will result in an ambitious global agreement including all the countries of the world. 

Basically, at the meeting they will determine the future that countries need and most likely are going to take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to slow down or minimze the effects of global warming. The point is not entirely to reverse global warming but rather to slow it down or to stop it.

The participating countries seem to be unclear at this moment as there is no conformation yet if Barack Obama will join the meeting. Obama will be accepting his "Nobel Peace Prize" very close to Copenhagen two days before the summit but no word if he would join although he was quoted today as saying

"“There are those who will suggest that moving towards clean energy will destroy our economy – when it’s the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of jobs,”"

Further on, the Climate change summit in Copenhagen is also part of the two year process to finalize a binding agreement in Denmark. In 2007 there was a key United Nations Climate Change conference on the Island of Bali in Indonesia where the Kyoto Protocol was agreed upon.

The Kyoto Protocal is a protocal to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change aimed at fighting global warming. The UNFCCC is a international environmental treaty with the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gasses. The Kyoto Protocal was adopted on 11 December 1997 in Japan and was made offical when it started in February of 2005. Only 184 countries have signed the protocol as of the date of writing this. The United states which is responsible for 36% of the 1990 emission levels is the most notable member.

Basically, the Climate Summit in Copenhagen is where the world would or suppose to sign a agreement to fight global warming on a global scale.