And the night goes on…
Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by annac in United Kingdom
Having been shut out of the negotiations this is how the trackers are following the action now.
Physically
Emotionally
Psychologically
Exhausted
Here in Copenhagen the negotiations are still going on. As we can’t get into the actual negotiations we are all sat in a room in the city centre watching them on a big screen.
But no one really seems to know what’s going on.
Including the people at the negotiations.
Yvo just told everyone there to watch the monitors to find out where the next meeting will be at 10pm!
Then 2 min later he came back to say, no it will be 11pm, so maybe now would be a good time to go get food…seriously.
He looked pretty tired and confused.
These talks are on a downward spiral. Any hope we have had over the last few months is fading. Not a single leader has delivered any leadership….
As the talks continue on way into the night what we are looking at getting out of them is weaker than anything we ever imagined two weeks ago.
Fair, ambitious, binding…..
Not a single one of our demands is looking likely.
Of course we can’t really know exactly what we will get, because at the final hour everything is now going on behind closed doors. But the mood in the rooms we have access to, both inside and outside the conference centre, is defiantly not one of hope.
As the night goes on, all we can say for certain though, is that we just don’t know.
It’s going to be a long night.
Exhaustion will have to wait.
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