Wongderful Adventures in Hopenhagen: COP15 By Numbers

This was taken from Scanorama – the Scandinavian Airlines Magazine 12/01: Editor in Chief Per Olsson. Special Advertising Supplement COP15: Editor Jorgen Hog. I read it on the plane from Copenhagen to Paris. I think it provides a good overview of COP15.

Bella Center – 76 000 square metres (including four newly-built pavilions providing an extra 10 000 square metres)
IT – 2400 PCs and 700km of cables
Security – Approximately 6000 of Denmark's 11 000 police will be involved with the COP
Food and Drink – 100 000 meals, 11 restaurants, 65% of all food served is organic
Accommodation – 'Stay for Free' Programme run by the New Life Copenhagen Organisation (www.houseing.cop15.dk and www.newlifecopenhagen.com)
Transport – 150 limousines for official VIP transport, 150 minivans to escort VIP convos; free public transport for other delegates
No gift policy – even minister to minster gifts have been banned – 11 Climate Scholarships for fully financed two year Master's degree in various climate and energy sciences at Danish universities

Food for Thought from COP15

"We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late." (Martin Luther King 1967).

"We can change. People like you and me. It's all about what we eat, the clothes we wear, how we get around and the resources we use. Time to rethink how we live our lives." (European Union Pavillion at COP15, 2009)

"I was born in 1992. You have been negotiating all my life. You cannot tell me you need more time." (Christina Ora, youth delegate from the Solomon Islands addressing the plenary at COP15, 2009)

"The energy and climate problem should capture our imagniations and lift our aspirations.
It is the most important challenge that science and technology must solve for ourselves and our prosperity." (Stephen Chu, US Secretary of Energy, Bright Green Forum, 2009)

"Still, this process (the UNFCCC process) needs to earn my trust" (Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretariat of the UNFCCC)

"You may loose a great deal but do not loose hope" (Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC, 2009)

"Thank god for the activists. They keep the politicians on issue." (Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2009)

"We cannot allow COP15 to be Doha." (Al Gore, Joint Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2007)

"Some of our discussions in schools are better than our discussions in Parliament. Young people hold politicians to account and remind us why we do it." (Penny Wong, Australian Minister for Climate Change, at an Australian youth briefing, 2009)

"This is not a shopping list. This is a negotiation." (Penny Wong, Australian Minister for Climate Change, at an Australian Youth Briefing, 2009)

"Go into politics. If you don't, the other corrupt ones will." (Margrete Auken, Member of the European Parliament)

"We came all this way to explore the moon and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." (Bill Anders, Apollo 8 Astronaut)

COP15 By Numbers

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