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In an official rest day in negotiations, a small group of about 50 environment ministers held an informal meeting convened by the Danish Minister Connie Hedegaard.

“We still have work ahead colossal, “said Hedegaard.

Meanwhile, in the port city, police dispersed a protest, under anti-capitalist slogans, and arrested more than 250 people arrested after nearly 1,000 the day before, following riots, to release after mostly.

Sunday was a day of religious mobilization across the planet.

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thousands of other churches around the world, the bells of the Cathedral of Copenhagen sounded 350 times, which corresponds to the maximum concentration of parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere to achieve the increased limit global temperatures to 1.5 ° C.

South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize, Desmond Tutu and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, recently officiated at a Mass ecumenical the Danish capital.

The ministers, an outpost of political representatives of 193 countries that earlier this week embark on the ministerial segment of the negotiation, discussed a draft agreement of seven pages seems to be widely accepted as the basis, despite the generation still many points of disagreement.

The French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, expressed a general desire to avoid the summit is a failure. “We are not lamenting the end of days we had an extraordinary opportunity but let”s win by fear,” he told AFP.

“Right now it needs political leadership,” said their partly responsible reporters Australian Penny Wong.

Environment ministers have three working days to prepare the ground before the arrival, between Wednesday and Friday, the heads of State and Government, including the U.S. Barack Obama, which is placed all hope of success.

However, an important U.S. senator against legislation against change climate, Republican James Inhofe, said Sunday in Washington that Obama will travel to Copenhagen with “empty promises” of a cut of 17% of CO2 emissions in 2020 compared to 2005, which may not comply because his bill now in debate, not be approved by Congress.

At the informal meeting with Hedegaard also attended by Environment Minister Juan Elvira Quesada of Mexico, the Brazilian chief negotiator Luis Alberto Figueiredo, and Chairperson of the Delegation of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is scheduled to arrive Wednesday to Copenhagen,fccwhere it is expected the presence of nearly 120 heads of state and Government.

Brazil has decided to take in Copenhagen a “voluntary commitment” to reduce its CO2 emissions of between 36% and 39% below what it would issue in 2020.

Mexico hopes for his party in 2012 to reduce its emissions by 6-7% current and 50% in 2050, if you receive financial and technological transfer from developed countries.

also Colombia “is committed to reducing emissions with financial support (…) and protect the Amazon,” explains its Environment Minister, Carlos Costa.

Separately, Ecuador continues to seek financial help to keep land under 850 million barrels of oil in Yasuni Amazon Park to reduce CO2 emissions.

In Havana, where the summit takes place in the Bolivian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), Cuban President Raul Castro, urged countries in the group to “defend a strong position” in Copenhagen.

At the moment, Bolivia and called for industrialized countries devote 6% of its GDP to fund measures in developing countries.