2009

We're back in business
17 December 2009

Yesterday's antics by the UN seem an age away.

Thanks to everyone who emailed their protest to Yvo de Boer, head of the climate talks.

More than 2,000 of you complained about the UN's outrageous behaviour - a truly fantastic result.

Happy to report we are now set up in a room near Copenhagen train station (pictured above).

And it's been snowing. Things are looking up.

Our room is much closer to our hostel and less like an aircraft hangar.

Like all the charities, campaign groups and other observers at the climate talks, we are only allowed a tiny fraction of delegates in the main conference centre.

So we have had to make alternative arrangements.

There are four Friends of the Earth people on the inside - the rest of us are holed up here.

We're monitoring the day-to-day business on webcam and printing out the UN draft texts as they come out.

Then we feed back to the policy people inside.

We're still pushing for a strong and fair agreement on tackling climate change. It can still happen if the rich countries pull their fingers out.

It's no secret that the talks are on a knife edge.

Countries like Denmark are blaming the problems on African countries who do not want to see a fudged agreement.

They want wealthy countries to commit to cut their emissions by at least 40 per cent by 2020.

And they're standing firm.

It is the rich countries that have missed their own deadlines to come up with figures for cutting emissions.

And now they're stalling again.

Send a message of support

You can help us send a message of support to African nations by doing today's action.

The Ethiopian Government is trying to cut a deal on behalf of Africa with rich countries - but this won't wash.

The country's people and the rest of the continent want to stand firm.

A reminder of what Copenhagen is about

Support our work

As someone who wants to see real change, you can help us to continue to demand climate change at Copenhagen and beyond with a direct debit of just £5 a month.

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