Copenhagen

Well its all been heard and written and analysed.
Niue took the view that
1 We agreed with the sciences.
2 We agreed to the AOSIS position on climate change -less than 1.5 degree rise in temp and 450ppm of GHG emissions.
3 We also felt that there were so many proposals for individual countries finding common ground was never going to be easy
4 That the reason for the vaiations was due to the lack of desire to change their economic models to allow for any real change
5 The lifestyle protectnism decisions was too difficulut for each country to overcome
6 Current economic and financial crisis was too hard to overcome and created to much uncertaincy which would not allow countries to be bolder and more expansive
7 Too many self interest
8 In any case whatever we said did or not do the planet will respond as it has always done when it is threatened.
This is clearly manifested in what is currently happening.

The meeting was poorly managed and allowed to be diverted by too many side issues

Initially I did not feel I had to be there but in the end we did need to be there.

When you consider that this had been in planning over the last 2-3 years we could have been better organised at the meeting.

Sad really