It was somewhat surreal that as we were leaving the Bella Centre last night after another day’s discussions on global warming, it was snowing heavily. The city looks rather magical this morning and I can tell you this because the city is all we can see – we have been kicked out of the Bella [...]

Things are hotting up here in Copenhagen. After the country representatives spent all last week working on the text dealing with aviation, suddenly yesterday the President of the COP – who chairs the proceedings – announced that she was splitting these workstreams into even smaller groups and making the sessions closed to observers. It is [...]

The Danish Government specified that 65% of all food in the congress centre for COP15 be organic. Instead, the caterers thought they said 65% tasteless and 100% de-frosted. The food is really bad here (aside from the carrot cake). Other than that, the event is actually very well organised. The computer systems are good (wi-fi [...]

It’s Saturday and the work of the COP15 continues, although most of the meetings today are closed. Security was noticably tighter coming in this morning, as Ministers and the high-level delegations start arriving. Security is also especially strong today due to a mass protest that is expected to take place. I was reflecting this morning [...]

I am sure most of you are seeing the news coming from the Copenhagen Climate Talks on TV or in the press. What you see doesn’t always capture the reality though. Despite the theatrical walk-outs by delegations, the suspension of negotiations and other drama, things here on the ground are not actually that exciting. So, [...]

It’s day three at the Copenhagen Climate Talks and I thought I would take a few minutes to give my reflections on the event so far. The first word to describe COP15 is massive. The venue is enormous – it takes at least 15 minutes to get from the entrance security to our office. You [...]