Geoff Keey's blog

It’s now the day after the end of the Copenhagen fiasco.  After a day of reflection my assessment is the same.  It was a massive failure of diplomacy brought about by two problems - a complete lack of ambition by developed country leaders, made worse by t

Warning: I’ve only had four hours sleep (excluding my little kip on the conference chairs (left), so let’s see how I go writing this blog….

Greetings from a cold and hectic Copenhagen. We are now entering the final days of the talks. Over the past week or so, hundreds of thousands of people have marched in locations around the world; among them youth, elders, celebrities, indigenous peoples, unions...

Today, while tens of thousands gathered in central Copenhagen to march to the Bella Centre, Ian Fry, the negotiator for Tuvalu, was making an impassioned speech for the survival of his country.

Tuvalu´s strong stance for a legally binding treaty so powerful countries don´t wriggle out of their commitments continued today.

As i write this, I'm at the Kyoto Protocol negotiations waiting for the session to start. Looking at my phone, i see i have thousands of unread emails in my inbox.

Today the negotiations became even more lively, when the tiny Pacific Island of Tuvalu put its foot down in the Conference of Parties (COP) to insist that they won’t allow talks to progress unless countries commit to consid

The political battles in the negotiations have begun. 

The first big jolt to the negotiations happened yesterday when a proposed deal that the Danish Government had been consulting on was leaked to UK newspaper The Guardian.

Today was the first day of formal negotiations.  My day was mostly spent finding my way round the Bella Centre where the negotiations are being held, tracking the key points to come out of the first day’s meetings and connecting with delegates and NGO representatives that I haven’t seen since Barcelona.

After watching events unfold with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), I’m starting to wonder whether New Zealand has lost its foreign policy mojo.