COP15 Opening Ceremony

COP15 happens inside here. It's huge.



Here are the sculptures outside the Bella Centre. The picture itself is quite self-explanatory. You see skinny kids standing in water up to angle height. That is what is going to happen with climate change - the sea level rises, so their homeland will soon be under water. More frequent extreme weather affects their lives heavily, because they are living in LDCs and are most vulnerable to climate change and its consequences.




Due to the large number of total delegates and the limited capacity of the Bella Centre (15,000 capacity, 20,000 participants), the civil societies have only got a limited number of tickets of the Opening of COP15, which means that many observers cannot get inside Planetary 1 to see the actual opening ceremony. It was a bit disappointing for us, since most of us did not get in. Nevertheless we went to Planetary 2 to watch the live broadcast. It was very crowded and filled with people.

As you can see in the picture below, Denmark showed the world this video of a young girl, who had a dream of a terrifying future with climate change consequences. Young children are important stakeholders, as they are inheriting the world from the present generation. They are passionate about COP15 and they want to express their concern and hope. This should provoke thoughts for everyone in COP15 and around the world, to stop for a second and think for a while, before rushing to make decisions.