COP15 is interesting to witness, but also tense and tiring, especially these last days. Proceedings are still slow, if not even worse than in the first week and beginning of this second week of negotiations (although Saudi Arabia is not any more claiming half of the speaking time as far as I know, which can be considered an improvement). Although I guess it’s mainly my fellow yellow-badged folks watching the awards at 6 pm every afternoon, I believe a little joke or ‘wake-up call’ for the hard-working delegates comes in quite handy after some tough hours of tiring work. What a relieve when you feel once again lost in jungles of UN abbreviations, like JI, CDM, NAMAs, PoAs, AWG-KP, AWG-LCA… and so on and so forth! This bright ray of light making your day in tight negotiations is called ‘Fossil of the Day (award)’.
The Fossil. What sounds like a weird biologists’ joke is in reality an award bestowed upon the three parties or groups that within a specific negotiation day of the COP15 hamper the proceedings significantly. The NGO (non-governmental organization) umbrella organization CAN leads through the awards every night, and this is when their information stand in the designated area in Bella Center is most crowded. Ben Wikler by part of avaaz.org does a fantastic job out there, check out December 15′s award on youtube. – - – In this very moment, Stefan’s telling me that the Fossils are awarded now in an alternative location, the Copenhagen Forum, as we NGO accredited people are shut out of the official meeting since this very morning. What shall I say? That information made my day! 
And it’s been quite a long one… (before you start asking: YES. I DID return to Klimaforum. Perhaps I gonna post something on that tomorrow, or later today.)
P.S. In case you’re really interested in the fossils now… wanna know what I’m so passionate about… click here! (It’ll be worth it. I really got addicted, Franziska by now freaks out when I say fossil dreading that I could give it a go on youtube again.)
