Today access to COP15 was denied to the vast majority of the Business and Industry community (known by the acronym BINGO) after having been allocated a total of 75 passes, which were non-transferable.
A rigorous deal is starting to look like it might not be likely in Copenhagen. Whatever the outcome, we've learned the climate treaty process has to be inclusive, the legitimate concerns of the developing world need to be heard and accounted for, or otherwise we may find ourselves repeating the same experiences on the road to Mexico.
As if in response to yesterdays blog about feeling the pressure, Gordon Brown will grace COP15 with his presence a day early, the Governator is already walking the halls, none of the parties negotiating the fine detail of the treaties had much sleep last night and are shipping in industrial strength coffee for this evening.
The EU is struggling to reach €3 billion in aid for developing countries to fight climate change, urging them to do more for themselves while also cutting the amount of Certified Emission Reductions that can be imported into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
A repeated theme at the Copenhagen climate change negotiations has been the need for the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism to become more transparent.
The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen periodically gets its head decapitated, with the location of the missing heads being part of Danish folk lore. In a similar spirit the Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board made a recent decision that metaphorically chopped the top off a number of Chinese windmills. Applications for the windmills were rejected so they won't receive carbon credits.
For the business community, the place to find out what has and is taking place at the COP15 climate conference is the daily BINGO meetings, which stands for Business and Industry Non Governmental Organizations. On the third day of the conference, the BINGO meeting saw debate over a controversial Danish text some say favors developed countries, while separately, the island of Tuvalu asked for the conference to be suspended until developed countries take on legally binding targets.
So now that the climate change science debate has successfully been put to bed we can get on with the important job at hand...reaching an international agreement on climate change?
Getting to a binding decision on climate change will be no easy feat. However, unlike last year's COP 14 in Poznan, this year's COP seems very different. The political will to achieve something definitive has seen a monumental shift in recent weeks and countries are now openly talking about emissions cuts, intensity targets, etc.