Missed a day on my daily blogs due to the sheer amount of things that have been happening here. Some of the highlights:

- Kyle Gracey, Campus Progress network member and Chair of the SustainUS steering committee, facilitated a youth briefing featuring the the Chairs of the negotiation working groups (Kyoto Protocol and Long Term Cooperative Action Working Groups) – two of the most important people at the summit.

- Youth made up over 80% of the audience at an off the record briefing with the U.S. negotiators featuring U.S. Climate Envoy John Pershing and E.P.A. Administrator Lisa Jackson. Out of 9 questions asked, about 6 were from youth. Obviously cannot comment on the content of the questions, but it was amazing to see such a presence from U.S. youth.

- On Wednesday morning we heard word that Lisa Jackson requested a meeting with 10 international youth. U.S. youth helped brief them about Administrator Jackson’s role as a champion within the administration.

- Canadian youth had an extremely successful demonstration against the Tar Sands that drew loads of attention. (What are the Tar Sands? check out this amazing video about them)

- As soon as the Canadian youth event ended, word got around that the small island state of Tuvalu took a courageous stand during the negotiations to force the process towards crafting a binding and enforceable agreement. This caused an impromptu uprising of over 200 young people and others from civil society (the Copenhagen term for non-governmental folks). Check out a great post about it on ItsGettingHotInHere.

- Enforcement has become one of the hot issues discussed here and various Fossil friendly countries rejected Tuvalu’s attempts to address the issue head on. Among them is Saudi Arabia that spent the day yesterday trying to convince the rest of the least developed countries that the science behing the climate crisis isn’t sound (confused about the fake debate waged by neocons to discredit scientists? Check out this great illustration!)

- As the day wound down, word spread about a side event happening outside of the center organized by ‘Americans for Prosperity’ featuring climate denier Chris Monkton (who is well known for publicly advocating that all HIV-positive people be “corralled in a giant quarantine facility for life”). U.S. Youth quickly organized and send a bunch of undercover young people with banners to disrupt the fossil fuel funded astroturfers. Their action was an absolute success, check out their posts here and here. Check out this amazing video from the action.

- While much of the U.S. Youth delegation was off disrupting the work of oil company propagandists, the ones that stayed behind called over 100 people and sent out over 200 e-mails to rapid responders in the U.S. urging them to call President Obama. The U.S. negotiators have been trying to remove wording about 350 parts per million from the negotiating texts and we need to make sure that the White House knows that young people cannot have a stable and prosperous future if the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stays above 350 parts per million.

- Finally, the Fossil of the Day awards took an interesting twist yesterday. Instead of declaring a 1st place fossil winner, the island state of Tuvalu won the first ever Ray of the Day award in the 10 year history of the Fossil of the Day tradition while Canada, Croatia and Russia were awarded with the coal-laden cup. Today Poland and Germany entered the ranking due to their obstruction within the European Union delegation and New Zealand was awarded the third place for proposing ridiculous targets. Another Ray of the Day was awarded to France for standing up to the fossils.

That’s it for now, need to run to another off-the record briefing! If you are interested in more policy heavy updates check out the Wonkroom, ClimateProgress, and CAN international’s videos.