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What’s been happening in Copenhagen

December 15th, 2009

Things have been escalating this week in Copenhagen, both inside and out of the Bella Center (where COP15 is held).

After the march on Saturday, the Police have been using heavy handed tactics. Tear Gas seems to be getting thrown around like it’s going out of style! I got my first taste ever last night and I wasn’t actually protesting – don’t recommend the stuff. Allegedly, people had thrown bottles outside of Christiana – the rest of us were inside at an event and the police decided to storm it and start throwing the gas around. That shit hurts and I wasn’t even in the middle of it! I was told the grade of tear gas they use in Denmark is the same grade as the Israeli Defence Force. Excellent.

That is the most police vans I have ever seen in one place. There must have been around 50 of them, each carrying 12 police officers. To me there was no riot in Christiania though, just a lot of gas getting thrown around…

Due to the police having new powers to arrest people they “think” might commit a crime in the near future, they’ve gone around today arresting the people they think are the leaders of tomorrow’s march on the Bella Center. It’s kinda like the Minority Report, without all the gadgets and clever stuff.. and Tom Cruise too – but that’s not a bad thing…

The biggest Rock Star over at Klimaforum the last few days has been Mohamed Nasheed, the President of the Maldives. He is the first and only leader to take serious action and commit the Maldives to being carbon nuetral within a decade. A great speaker too.

They also had the “Angry Mermaid” award over at Klimaforum today, which was a people’s vote award for the company that had done the most to undermine progress at the talks and continue to pollute. Monsanto won – top work boys!

Inside COP15, at the Bella Center, some interesting twists have occurred too. Firstly, there was a deadlock and talks were stopped all yesterday. It seems that developed countries are sidelining the rest of the delegates so they can pursue their own agendas, causing friction.

After today, all NGO’s (Non Governmental Organisations) are banned from the COP15 conference, citing overcrowding as the official reason. So, now all we have are leaders and Fossil Fuel Lobbyists floating around that place – how the hell are we going to get a good deal out of this?!

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