SDI together with the U.S. Embassy, Kuala Lumpur will be organising a talk on the 2009 UN Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change.The talk will be delivered by Dr. Myron Shekelle, a Conservation Biologist based in Seattle, USA. Dr. Shekelle previously worked at the University of Indonesia and subsequently, was a teaching fellow at the National University of Singapore. With more than 10 years of experience living and working in Southeast Asia as a professional conservation biologist, he returned to the USA in 2008 to found his own science-based conservation organization, tarsier.org. Dr. Shekelle will discuss the Copenhagen Conference and what he thinks the intended effects are for cooperation between the United States and Southeast Asian nations, notably Malaysia. In line with this, he will discuss how his experiences in the region have illuminated some potential solutions, and many of the very real pitfalls, for foreign-sponsored, collaborative biodiversity research and conservation in Southeast Asia.