It's almost impossible to remember how hopefully the world anticipated the UN Climate Change Conference. It turned out to be a complete failure, a terrible example of bad faith posturing as global leadership.
It also turned out that neither the United Nations Organization nor the Danish Government were able to manage the process with anything like the degree of discipline required to produce even a moderately acceptable outcome.
The UN Secretary-General distanced himself from the conference after the first week and the Danish government sacked their own chairperson when the meeting broke down soon afterwards. In her place they substituted the Prime Minister in the vain hope that he would be able to produce a cogent result once the heads of government arrived for the final 48 hours.
This was not to be; the meeting was literally abandoned by many delegates before a meaningless accord (to continue discussions in the summer of 2010) was finalised. It was published to the disappointment of almost everyone and the disgust of many, including hundreds of observors who were literally locked out of proceedings and and thousands of protestors who were assaulted, arrested and imprisoned by panic stricken Danish police.
I decided to monitor the proceedings and was spellbound and horrified by what I saw. Click here to read my daily summary of the Conference.
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