It is all winding up to the finale

It is Wednesday here in Copenhagen, or Hopenhaven, as many are calling it. Snowing and cold but the work continues. Many world leaders have began to arrive now and security is very tight. Access to the COP 15 Bella Center has been severely restricted. NGO's such as the Arctic Athabaskan Center  which had allowed our class to be a part of their NGO have now been given a few passes of which our class has four. One must have these passes, in addition to the registration badges to get into the Bella Center to hopefully then have access to another pass to allow them into the actual COP 15 event. On Monday COP 15 attendees were told that this was coming. So from 27 thousand participants on Monday  the special passes yesterday allowed many less. Today 9000 will be allowed entrance, and by Friday the rumor is that 90 special passes will be issued. Our four people from the UAF RuralDEvelopemnt program are out there now, hoping their pass will get them in.

One of my class mates who managed to get in yesterday with teh specail pass told me that security is much tighter. She said the plice who were helpful and smiling last week and tense and terse and very abrupt. So so surprising, since most of the leaders on the planet will be at the Bella Center this last 2  to 3 days.

The rest of us are still attending the many side events taking place at the Klima forum ( see link on right side of blog),  and the many other NGO's and IPO's that are still taking place. There is a rumor that there may be some sort of protest action within the COP 15 meetings by indigenous groups, but this is just a rumor.
If you want to watch the meetings they are available live webcasts   on the COP 15 website  at www.COP15.dk.

Enjoy and tune into KCAW.org to hear a few stories that should hopefully air today or tomorrow. Still having feed problems but am hoping they were sent sucessfully today!