As UN Restricts NGOs, COP15 Side Events Draw Crowds

One day before the arrival of US President Barack Obama, the United Nations on Thursday decided to restrict access to the global climate talks in Copenhagen for non-governmental organisations and it confronted journalists with additional security.

The measures were put in place as more than hundred world leaders began arriving in the Danish capital. This politician regretted the move.
Jo Leinen
So as a quiet tension took hold of the Bella Centre, side-events in the centre of town became more lively.
The Klimaforum is one of these. Among the visitors... These three aspiring journalists and bloggers, from Brasil, Italy and Bulgaria. They won a trip to cover the climate talks as part of the ThinkAboutIt dot EU blogging competition.


The Klimaforum mostly met the needs of those who are already convinced of the need to deal with climate change.

Climate skeptics had their own event at a separate venue.
The official negotiations on a comprehensive climate deal continued on Thursday, again without clear progress. Increasingly, observers, analysts and even politicians are admitting that a full-fledged agreement no longer is possible, and suggest such a deal needs to be hammered out in Mexico in six months.
But even if that happens, the Copenhagen summit, according to some, will not have been a waste of time and energy.


Raymond Frenken, EUX.TV, Copenhagen

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[Maurofelixful]

story of our lives- too much talking, not enough doing

[ezze902]

Hope-n-hagen is a Coke slogan... ffs.

[strasheep]

come on... did you actually expect something to come out of this? look at what happened to Kyoto. its naive to think that we would come up with something here when we have been consistently resisting change throughout the decades.

[vieseharry]

New World Order !

[lifeformalien]

At the gate they paused, half frightened to go on but Clover led the way in. They tiptoed up to the house, and such animals as were tall enough peered in at the dining-room window. There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honour at the head of the table. The pigs appeared completely at ease in their chairs...

[TheBravo345]

what a farce