First off, LinkTV’s Earth Focus program just broadcast an interview I did with them on Copenhagen before I left, in case you want to take a look.

Meanwhile, I started day two in Copenhagen eating breakfast with Jessy Tolkan from the Energy Action Coalition. She told me that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called her on her cell phone yesterday to announce the EPA’s endangerment finding that coal must be controlled as a threat to global warming pollution -- and to thank her for the pressure the youth are putting on the Administration to do more. Congratulations, EAC – and note that Jackson’s call should speak to the tens of thousands of 1Sky advocates who called Congress, the White House and took part in our Climate Art campaign! We are being heard – not only has President Obama agreed to attend the Copenhagen negotiations, he has adjusted his original date to arrive on December 18 at a key moment towards the end rather than the early stages before any agreement has emerged.

When I got to the Bella Center where the negotiations are taking place, I headed straight to the daily rapid response meeting of NGOs worldwide. On the way, I ran into a 350 campaigner from Fiji and asked her to give me her message to the American people.

I also passed Tom Goldtooth, Clayton Thomas and others from the Indigenous Environmental Network singing and chanting to urge attention on indigenous peoples during the negotiations.

In the rapid response meeting, we agreed that one of today’s priorities is to put more focus on long term financing for adaptation, clean technology transfer, and avoided deforestation. 1Sky has driven tens of thousands of calls to the US Senate and to the White House urging them to make substantial funding commitments. Please join us in making a call to the White House and the Senate now -- the U.S. delegation in Copenhagen includes hundreds of members of Congress, the White House, and staff, and they need to be hearing from us as they head out the door.

I was just in the negotiations room and the session was focused on financing, with the G77 (developing countries) and China calling for developed and industrialized countries to make substantial financing commitments . Though I must say that the “negotiations” themselves tend to be remarkably dull and inscrutable -- with a few notable exceptions -- I will try to report on them to you when and as they occur. You’d never know we were in a fight for our lives to hear these bureaucrats drone on and on…

The rapid response meeting also featured a powerful and emotional excerpt from the TckTckTck delivery of its global petition of more than 10,000,000 signatures urging a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty in Copenhagen.

Meanwhile, everyone is gearing up for the global day of action on December 12 to call on world leaders to take urgent action on climate change.

Avaaz is in the act as always -- here they are dressed up as green martians searching for leaders who will deliver a real deal.

And Friends of the Earth got in the game, featuring a magician who can’t seem to make airplane offsets disappear no matter how hard he tries.

The negotiations can be such a snooze, and this place is so glutted with media, that it’s like taking candy from a baby to get coverage with a little creativity! Maybe I should don a costume and concoct an act? Ideas welcome.

Today’s top Fossil of the Day went to Ukraine, for proposing targets of -20% below 1990 levels by 2020 – the equivalent to a 75% increase from current levels -- while accepting $3 billion in funding from Japan for emissions credits with a lack of transparency regarding how the funds are being deployed. Sheesh.

And finally, at the end of the day the NGOs and youth got a briefing from the U.S. delegation, including EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Jonathan Pershing and other Department of State officials. Unfortunately, Pershing insisted that their remarks were off the record. But I will say that Jackson got a standing ovation, and the U.S. youth community pulled out the stops with hard hitting questions on 350, ambition, and historical responsibility, amongst others.