Copenhagen Climate latest updates
December 16, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Copenhagen Climate, Police were on alert in Copenhagen on Wednesday morning as protesters gathered for a mass demonstration. The protesters say they plan to move into the conference area where world leaders are meeting, disrupt the sessions and hold a ‘people’s summit’.
The protest comes after more than a week of talks at the UN Climate Conference, in which world leaders have so far failed to reach a consensus on how to tackle global warming. The world leaders have until a main summit on Friday to agree a deal under a deadline set at a meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007. Negotiations since Bali have been marred by mistrust between rich and poor nations.
As the deadline approaches for a pact that would favour a shift to low-carbon businesses, some politicians are warning of the risks of failure in the 193-nation negotiations, even as they urge compromises to allow a breakthrough.
Protesters gathering on Wednesday morning said they felt their demands for action were not being listened to. The climate conference has been the scene of several protests and demonstrations since it started on December 7. People from all over the world have descended on the Danish capital to urge their governments to come up with a binding climate agreement.
Various lobby groups have been stationed outside the Bella Centre, where the conference is taking place, since the start, while inside, a few smaller protests take place each day.
Copenhagen Climate latest updates was first posted on December 16, 2009 at 11:13 pm.
