Last night I attended one of the cultural events during the COP15 summit on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. French climber Antoine Le Menestrel made a symbolic climb from the top of the French embassy to the top of the neighbouring European Environment Agency/EEA. During this very impressive climb show he made his artistic contribution in order to Bend The Trend (of continued CO2 emissions and global warming) by manually bending a lightened curve on a graphic mural display.
And it became clear why he started at the top: he figuratively started at the top of the curve, bent it, and took it down to the level of the maximum rise of two degrees celsius, to be the end result and the deal sealed at the end of COP15. If only we could see world leaders hang from a wire in a girdle and do the same magic trick! Well, maybe next week we will see that.
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