
{"id":25556,"date":"2009-09-10T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=25556\/"},"modified":"2017-01-21T07:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T07:19:32","slug":"quirky-music-livened-up-ministers-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/quirky-music-livened-up-ministers-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Quirky music livened up ministers debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the subject of the climate change debate between five foreign ministers Thursday morning at the University of Copenhagen was dead serious, the tone was lively.<\/p>\n<p>By 8:45 a.m. about 20 people had already showed up to get front-row seats for the debate. As Queen&#8217;s &#8220;Bicycle Race&#8221; and Helen Boulding&#8217;s &#8220;Copenhagen&#8221; echoed through loudspeakers, security guards manned the front doors and dogs sniffed attendees. By the time the event started, 150-200 people speaking a cacophony of languages had crowded in to the Ceremonial Hall to hear the speech. <\/p>\n<p>See story: <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/climate-deal-danger-says-uk-foreign-minister\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Climate deal in danger<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The background music leading up to the discussion was an odd mix for a debate on climate change. As if predicting doom for the world&#8217;s climate, REM&#8217;s \u2018It&#8217;s the End of the World as We Know It,\u2019 was played along with Glenn Frey&#8217;s \u2018The Heat is On.\u2019 As the ministers walked into the auditorium, Swedish rock band Europe&#8217;s \u2018The Final Countdown\u2019 played, possibly in reference to the eleventh hour talks being made before the climate change conference.<\/p>\n<h2>Let the people speak<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbNo deal or new deal? Copenhagen or Hopenhagen.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>So started Prorector Lykke Friis, who used a combination of football analogies and standard debate procedures to moderate the discussion. Friis was armed with yellow and red cards to give to speakers who went past their limits. French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner was the only person to receive a penalty, a yellow card for his winded response to an audience question. <\/p>\n<p>Audience members and the questions they asked were varied. <\/p>\n<p>Katherine Richardson, a driving force behind keeping politicians up-to-date about key findings in climate change for the conference and vice dean at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, asked why there hasn&#8217;t been a European leader who has stepped up to become a spokesperson for climate change. Miliband replied that European leaders have instead all been \u00bbboringly united,\u00ab and should turn that unity into leverage. <\/p>\n<p>In another audience question, a Greenpeace worker criticized the EU for not showing enough leadership, nor discussing finance as part of the deal. Sweden&#8217;s Carl Bildt disagreed, adding that the EU is the only part of the world actually moving. More can be done, but \u00bbEurope has shown more leadership than anywhere in the world,\u00ab he said.<\/p>\n<p>A retired nuclear physicist asked how nuclear energy fit into the climate change agreement. Bildt, whose country has been in support of nuclear energy, lightly said that \u00bbit was very nice to hear Danes specifically in favour of nuclear power,\u00ab given that Denmark officially does not support it. <\/p>\n<h2>Parting gift<\/h2>\n<p>On a final optimistic note, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig M\u00f8ller spoke about how doing many small things can make a big difference in climate change. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe can move forward by taking the low-hanging fruits,\u00ab he said, adding that \u00bblots of things can be done very easily\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknaming the ministers \u2018The fabulous five,\u2019 Friis ended the conference by giving the ministers Danish national team bike jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>The loudspeakers were pumped up the music to the Beatles&#8217; \u2018Baby you can drive my car.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie.bergeron@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prorector Lykke Friis was in fine form, dealing out a yellow card warning to a long-winded 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As Queen&#8217;s &#8220;Bicycle Race&#8221; and Helen Boulding&#8217;s &#8220;Copenhagen&#8221; echoed through loudspeakers, security guards manned the front doors and dogs sniffed attendees. By the time the event started, 150-200 people speaking a cacophony of languages had crowded in to the Ceremonial Hall to hear the speech. <\/p>\n<p>See story: <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/climate-deal-danger-says-uk-foreign-minister\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Climate deal in danger<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The background music leading up to the discussion was an odd mix for a debate on climate change. As if predicting doom for the world&#8217;s climate, REM&#8217;s \u2018It&#8217;s the End of the World as We Know It,\u2019 was played along with Glenn Frey&#8217;s \u2018The Heat is On.\u2019 As the ministers walked into the auditorium, Swedish rock band Europe&#8217;s \u2018The Final Countdown\u2019 played, possibly in reference to the eleventh hour talks being made before the climate change conference.<\/p>\n<h2>Let the people speak<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbNo deal or new deal? Copenhagen or Hopenhagen.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>So started Prorector Lykke Friis, who used a combination of football analogies and standard debate procedures to moderate the discussion. Friis was armed with yellow and red cards to give to speakers who went past their limits. French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner was the only person to receive a penalty, a yellow card for his winded response to an audience question. <\/p>\n<p>Audience members and the questions they asked were varied. <\/p>\n<p>Katherine Richardson, a driving force behind keeping politicians up-to-date about key findings in climate change for the conference and vice dean at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, asked why there hasn&#8217;t been a European leader who has stepped up to become a spokesperson for climate change. Miliband replied that European leaders have instead all been \u00bbboringly united,\u00ab and should turn that unity into leverage. <\/p>\n<p>In another audience question, a Greenpeace worker criticized the EU for not showing enough leadership, nor discussing finance as part of the deal. Sweden&#8217;s Carl Bildt disagreed, adding that the EU is the only part of the world actually moving. More can be done, but \u00bbEurope has shown more leadership than anywhere in the world,\u00ab he said.<\/p>\n<p>A retired nuclear physicist asked how nuclear energy fit into the climate change agreement. Bildt, whose country has been in support of nuclear energy, lightly said that \u00bbit was very nice to hear Danes specifically in favour of nuclear power,\u00ab given that Denmark officially does not support it. <\/p>\n<h2>Parting gift<\/h2>\n<p>On a final optimistic note, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig M\u00f8ller spoke about how doing many small things can make a big difference in climate change. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe can move forward by taking the low-hanging fruits,\u00ab he said, adding that \u00bblots of things can be done very easily\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknaming the ministers \u2018The fabulous five,\u2019 Friis ended the conference by giving the ministers Danish national team bike jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>The loudspeakers were pumped up the music to the Beatles&#8217; \u2018Baby you can drive my car.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie.bergeron@gmail.com<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":48,"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1035,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11489,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/miliband-1-1280x853.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40453,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions\/40453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}