Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Last day for Sweco at Bella Center, but will continue blogging

Starting tomorrow, they are restricting access to Bella Center by slashing the number of observers down from 7000 to 90. That will obviously mean that we have to continue to report from the outside. Which, as we have stated before, is in a way easier since you can monitor webcasts and follow multiple media simultaneously. Breaking news is that the demonstrations this morning resulted in a few hundred demonstrants arrested. Demonstrations have now eased and the police made a deal with the demonstrants; letting them hold a demonstration tonight if they promised to step back from the Bella Center.

The COP15 President, Connie Hedegaard, unexpectedly resigned a couple of hours ago and is now replaced by Lars Lökke Rasmussen, the Danish Prime Minister. The official version is that this is appropriate considering the vast number of heads of state coming for the final day of the meeting. Other sources are pointing to the fact that she was too controversial and without result in this late hour.

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