200 arrested in protests
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December 14, 2009, Monday
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DANISH police outnumbered protesters yesterday, detaining more than 200 people on a second day of demonstrations as environment ministers met for informal talks to advance negotiations on a new pact.
Meanwhile, church bells in Denmark and other countries rang 350 times, a number that refers to what many scientists consider a safe level of carbon dioxide in the air.
Police stopped an unauthorized demonstration headed toward Copenhagen's harbor and carried out a security check of some of the participants, police said.
A day earlier, police had detained nearly 1,000 activists at the tail end of a 40,000-strong march toward the suburban conference center where the UN climate conference is being held.
The detainees were from a range of European countries as well as the United States, Kenya, Belarus, Japan, Mongolia and Turkey, police said.
Only 13 of them remained in custody yesterday.
Police said they detained the activists when some of them started breaking windows of buildings.
The conference took a day off yesterday, though more than 40 environment ministers and other negotiators held informal talks at the Danish Foreign Ministry.
The pledges on emissions cuts so far are short of the minimum proposed in a draft agreement to keep temperatures from rising to a dangerous level.
Also yesterday, Christian leaders from around the world took part in an ecumenical service dedicated to climate change and led by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
Meanwhile, church bells in Denmark and other countries rang 350 times, a number that refers to what many scientists consider a safe level of carbon dioxide in the air.
Police stopped an unauthorized demonstration headed toward Copenhagen's harbor and carried out a security check of some of the participants, police said.
A day earlier, police had detained nearly 1,000 activists at the tail end of a 40,000-strong march toward the suburban conference center where the UN climate conference is being held.
The detainees were from a range of European countries as well as the United States, Kenya, Belarus, Japan, Mongolia and Turkey, police said.
Only 13 of them remained in custody yesterday.
Police said they detained the activists when some of them started breaking windows of buildings.
The conference took a day off yesterday, though more than 40 environment ministers and other negotiators held informal talks at the Danish Foreign Ministry.
The pledges on emissions cuts so far are short of the minimum proposed in a draft agreement to keep temperatures from rising to a dangerous level.
Also yesterday, Christian leaders from around the world took part in an ecumenical service dedicated to climate change and led by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
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