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UN Climate Change Conference: drafting phase for a final agreement

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 9 December 2009 - In Copenhagen, the UN Climate Change Conference has entered the drafting phase for a final agreement. 
According to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, there is a real eagerness amongst parties to sit down and get the work done as much as possible before Ministers arrive.     

And just a few facts from Copenhagen: 

More than 34,000 people have registered to attend the conference—which is clearly a testimony to the great interest generated by it. But the building can only hold 15,000. To address the issue, a system has been devised to allow NGO delegates into the building according to a quota system. The vast majority of the people registered at the conference are in fact from nongovernmental organizations—20,820 to be exact. 

And also, 700 kilometers of cables to provide power and high speed internet have been laid at the Bella Center where the Conference is taking place. That's enough to go all the way from Copenhagen to Prague.

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change website:
http://unfccc.int/

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