Dan Bodansky Letter from Copenhagen  by Dan Bodansky  [As noted
earlier, Professor Dan Bodansky is continuing his dispatches on
the climate change talks.  He is in Copenhagen this week and
next, and sends us this initial letter.  OJ will be providing
additional commentary on the climate change talks -- from the
conference, and from other academic commentators -- over the
next week. Dan's letter is being cross-posted at the Smith
School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford.]      Legal form
Although most now agree that Copenhagen will produce only an
interim political outcome, there is still significant
disagreement about the legal architecture of the ultimate (post-
Copenhagen) deal. Countries are now split into three groups.
First, most developed countries prefer doing away with the Kyoto
Protocol and replacing it with a single new legal agreement that
would include both developed and developing countries. Most of
the big developing countries (such as China, India and Brazil)
support only an amendment to