Copenhagen - Day Two

BELLA CENTER, COP15, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK -- Hello from the conference center! I will add more details later when I get a chance, but basically after a morning of wandering all over the city, we ended up back here at the actual site of the COP15, and stumbled upon a series of maybe 500 computers all ready to go, for "official delegate use," and I thought that it was too cool to not send an update.

In any case we also got our travel cards, and are off to Malmo, Sweden this afternoon!

More to come...

BBC: UN hits back at climate sceptics amid email row:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8397265.stm

Times Online: Copenhagen, We've got them climate blues:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6945990.ece

UPDATE: Hello again, this time from back at the hostel. I have just uploaded a new article to the G-1 Billion website that I think pretty accurately describes my feelings upon arriving yesterday.

G-1 Billion: Copenhagen breathes efficiency:

http://g-1billion.org/?p=1566〈=en

Also, I had a great day in Sweden - add another country to the list! Matthew and I took the train across to Malmo and walked around... we saw the Malmohus Castle, which is about 600 years old and was originally built by a joint Danish-Swedish-Norwegian King who controlled all traffic into and out of the Baltic Sea. Today it is the Malmo Museum. From there we walked to the central Malmo Square, where they had a big lit-up Christmas tree surrounded by a mini-ice rink with little kids skating in circles around the tree... it was quite pretty! Somewhere there is a picture of me on that ice... I'll hopefully upload it later this week.

From there we walked down a long pedestrian corridor over a series of canals... most of the buildings in Malmo were quite colorful, much like Copenhagen (not really much of a surprise there). Lots of yellow and red, and some green to complement the more traditional white/brown/black. It's a beautiful mix with all the blue water! On one of the bridges over the canal we stopped at this small stand selling mini-fried donuts covered in powdered sugar, which was just delicious. We saw a local band that spontaneously decided to start playing on a Carousel, which was pretty funny too. We had lunch at a local cafe place, and then as it was getting dark figured we should hop back on the train to Copenhagen. About 40 minutes later we got back here, and viola!

Tomorrow is the opening day of the COP15, so look out for a full-on media blitz! Random: at the US delegation stand we saw them setting up their media center, which featured a video on green initiatives in the United States. They profiled three cities: Madison, Chicago, and Phoenix.

BBC: UN upbeat on Copenhagen global climate deal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8397742.stm