The Climate Group has published an assessment of the Copenhagen summit together with a shorter Q&A. It concludes that there are positive and less positive points in the Copenhagen Accord: Positive points Having the US, China, India and other major developing countries sign up to a joint climate agreement for the first time. All of these countries making unconditional national pledges to either cut or slow the growth of their emissions and/or implement specific measures to achieve this.

The FAO has produced a new review of the potential for dryland pastoral systems to adapt to and mitigate climate change through soil carbon sequestration: "Review of evidence on drylands pastoral systems and climate change Implications and opportunities for mitigation and adaptation." Land and water discussion paper 8, FAO, 2010.

The Food Climate Research Network and WWF-UK have published a new report that quantifies the UK’s food carbon footprint - taking into account emissions from land use change - and explores a range of scenarios for achieving a 70% cut in food related greenhouse gas emissions. Previous estimates by the FCRN and others have found that the food chain accounts for around 20% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions.