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- December 18, 2009 - 12:58pm
It has been a long tough day filled with rumors in Copenhagen. President Lula of Brazil gave an inspirational speech that potentially broke new ground on the transparency issues while offering to forgo receiving funds from the financing mechanism and offering instead to contribute. He said he was hoping for a miracle. Lula was followed by President Obama.
- December 18, 2009 - 12:38pm
The heads of state have arrived. We are waiting for President Obama to speak. Inside the Bella Center the exhibit booth hall is quiet with some beginning to pack up. The booths of many of the activist civil society groups were cleared out Wednesday night as the restrictions on NGO groups took hold. They left a stark message behind, a silhouette of a head with tape crossed across the mouth and a poster below saying “How can you decide about us without us.”
- December 17, 2009 - 12:59pm
Thursday morning found Copenhagen bitterly cold with a cutting wind and covered in snow …much like the negotiations and the feelings of civil society. The Bella Center is on lockdown mode with heads of state and elected governmental leaders arriving. Civil society (unions and other non-governmental organizations) representation has been cut to 300 out of the more than 10,000 in town.
- December 15, 2009 - 10:54am
Bob Baugh is the Executive Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Council. He is currently blogging from Copenhagen.
- December 10, 2009 - 10:52am
With the Kronenborg Slot (Hamlet’s castle) just a few kilometers from Copenhagen a blogger always wants to lead with, “something is rotten in the State of Denmark.” But, the opposite is true; something promising is growing in Denmark. However, it takes a daily process to sort through the wheat from the chaff, the rumor from the fact.
Our days begin and end with an International Trade Union Confederation [ITUC] debriefing and planning session. Information is shared, rumors affirmed or debunked, insights shared about different governments’ actions, what other stakeholders in the UN process are up to and what we must do next as ITUC delegates to support our just transition language. Consider the past 48 hours.
