Monday, February 6, 2012

Cop17 II

I'm glad to say i ended up working at Cop17, and not so glad to say that it did not end as well as people hoped it would. Not many firm decisions were made and many countries dodged signing agreements that they would reduce climate change.

There was even a protest on the last day, initially started by young delegates that later had almost all the delegates partake in, pictures and video coming soon. Unfortunately this protest did not make much of a difference.

Delegates held meetings until the next morning after the conference had ended. I don't think many countries were willing to make sacrifices to save our planet, and were being stubbornly short sighted. Anyway the next Cop will be in Qatar, hope it will be better.

Also, i got to meet the president of South Africa and Ban Ki Moon :)

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