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<p> COP 15 Daily updates from John Carstensen</p>

SocEnv Chief Executive Officer

 

  • Day 13

    The Society for the Environment is deeply disappointed with the lack of results of the Copenhagen Climate Conference. SocEnv would have welcomed a clear signal from world leaders that the transition...

  • Day 12

     

    Breaking News: The UN has just requested heads of states to remain in Copenhagen overnight and continue the negotiations until tomorrow. The situation is very, very tense and progress is slow.

  • Day 11

     

    It looks increasingly unlikely that a comprehensive climate deal will be struck in Copenhagen, but negotiations have reopened on two separate tracks, one on the continuation of the Kyoto protocol and...

  • Day 10

     

    I don’t think that I have ever seen as many US senators in person before. The High Level segment is certainly on, but that doesn’t seem to signal progress in the negotiations although government...

  • Day 9

     

    The high level segment of the climate conference started today during the second day of the second week. The opening session heard speeches from the Danish Prime Minister, the UN Secretary General...

  • Day 6

     

    Late last night the current text for a final deal was circulated, originally as a confidential document, but it soon circulated widely among the observers and this morning it could be found on...

  • Day 5

     

    Today had a series of very interesting side events on what the European countries are doing. The UK event was organised by UK Trade and Investment and a youth representative who took a break from...

  • Day 4

     

    “I’m so tired and I haven’t got clue what is going on”, complained a youth representative in a bright orange T-shirt to his friend at 9.30 in the morning at one of the many coffee shops in the...

  • Day 3

     

    Copenhagen Day 3 - 09.12.09 The positioning game has started in Copenhagen. Proposals, counter proposals, pledges and conditional pledges together with accusations of opening already agreed...

  • Day 2

     

    It is Day 2 of the climate summit and the most striking things are the diversity of the nearly 15,000 participants and the complexity of the issues and the negotiations.

 

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