Everyone is bustling around in Copenhagen. The United Nations summit is ending but nothing has taken shape yet.
Finally, the snow globe is stabilized, and no final agreement takes shape. It is the uncertainty.
Also, yesterday, the Wednesday decembre 16th, three days before the summit ends, the United Nations summit about the climate changes has seen her president, Connie Hadegaard, let the presidency to her prime minister, Lars Lokke Hadegaard. Mr Rasmussen will manage the final discussions of the summit… A minister who seems generate less hope than his predecessor: Copenhagen has just lost her heroine.
In the same time, the technicians have let their sits to the ministers, and the ministers are going to let it today (Thursday December 17th) to the Presidents of the States who will have to ending the negotiations.
We are in a waltz. This waltz has taken a long time to start in the regular postponed negotiations. This waltz is stuck into the Danish fog.
In Copenhagen, we do not break the ice between the blocs of countries, but we rather get the feeling that everything is like an ice rink. At the Bella Center, in fact, it is a static political snowball which is landed on the shelf of the own economic interests of each state.
Finally, only one feeling is up : Which is really positive is outside of the snow globe: NGOs, Common call of France and Africa, phone negotiations with the White House…
The sleepless nights follow each other at the Bella Center, but the paper still as empty as before the summit.
Everything should be unlocked with the arrival of the Presidents of States at Bella Center. We are all looking forward a text which will make the synthesis of the Kyoto convention and of groups working on long-term actions.
We hope that the European political engagements will have the snowball effect
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