Editor's Note: The following is somewhat unusual for us. It marks the first time we've published poetry. The work, though, concerns one of the major events coming in the greentech world – the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference – and the arts arguably need to be re-injected into current events. W.H. Auden wrote "September 1, 1939" to mark the day when the world learned of Nazi-Soviet Pact. (It was one of the big days of the 20th Century. My father-in-law, who happened to be in Warsaw that day, remembers it well.) Beethoven wrote the Eroica during the Napoleonic Wars. And let's not forget, "Down in Monterey‚" by Eric Burdon and the Animals. We hope you enjoy it.

The Path to Copenhagen 2009

Up the road
In Elsinore
A Prince in Torment
Over a Too Solid World

Melting Flesh
Melting Kingdom
Melting Planet

Up the Road
In Elsinore

On the streets
Of Copenhagen
Scientists – a Jew and a German
Argue about the Bomb

Melting Flesh
Melting Kingdom
Melting Planet

On the streets
Of Copenhagen

Can we find that canon 'gainst self-slaughter?

Copenhagen
Open Change

Copenhagen
Né Con Phage*

*Born/To Steer Our Vessel Away From/That Which Devours It

Nancy Pfund is Managing Partner of DBL Investors.

Image of Copenhagen via Flickr/Creative Commons.