The First COP15 Actions Taking Shape

10 Decem­ber 2009

11th Dec: For lat­est news cov­er­age of events see Time­line Reports | Live Video from Cop15live | Modkraft.dk Time­line (dk)

From “the inside”:
The cli­mate actions start­ed last night with fifty Amer­i­can activists tak­ing over a con­ser­v­a­tive host­ed cli­mate denier con­fer­ence. Today activists cre­at­ed a “cli­mate storm” inside the Bel­la Cen­tre and spoke against “sui­cide pacts” for low-lying nations, that would be destroyed by unchecked cli­mate change. Yes­ter­day the cli­mate sum­mit halt­ed, when one of these threat­ened nations, Tuvalu, demand­ed com­mit­ment to a legal­ly-bind­ing agree­ment.

At the bor­ders:
The police has been more active con­trol­ling the bor­ders around Den­mark, for instance near the Ger­man city of Flens­burg, but it’s still pos­si­ble to enter Den­mark. There are also reports of peo­ple have been reject­ed through to Den­mark from Swe­den.

In the streets:
The cops in Copen­hagen are gen­er­al­ly quite active patrolling and stop­ping and search­ing peo­ple at sev­er­al cli­mate active points, when they aren’t just harass­ing peo­ple with paint.

While being a qui­et day, the police has­n’t been on the slow side with break­ing leg­is­la­tion by mak­ing deals with Dan­ish offices regard­ing sur­veil­lance data of pub­lic roads.

Yes­ter­day’s fea­ture

For more cov­er­age see: Cli­mate Jus­tice Chron­i­cle News­pa­per Issue #2 | Democ­ra­cy Now! Broad­cast­ing Dai­ly | OneCli­mate