Sure: While the Climate Change Conference kicks off in Copenhagen

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It started yesterday and will last through December 18 2009 and probably will be considered one of the most important conferences held in the history of mankind. Ninety Eight leaders of the 192 members of the UN and 12,000 delegates and specialists from more than 170 countries will be participating in the discussions. Also some 42 observers from the Insurance industry are expected in Copenhagen to review the potential implications the more stringent environmental controls, that could come out of the treaty, would have on the Insurance Industry. In addition about 3,000 journalists and correspondents have already arrived in the host city Copenhagen and more are expected. Bella Center, the venue of the conference, situated in the city's south, is among Europe's leading exhibition and meeting centers, with a total capacity of 20,000. A giant wind turbine, the symbol of Bella Center, stands in front of the building, whose main entrance is decorated with a full-size wind turbine fan blade.

Will the conference be successful? Some people have their doubts, but whatever happens, it is a beginning, and the wheels, to cut carbon dioxide emissions globally in an organized way, have been set in motion. There is no more turning back.

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Secretary Joël Decaillon said about this conference: "It is essential to maintain the objectives that have been set for the Copenhagen Conference. The absence of an agreement would boil down to wasting an extremely important opportunity, particularly in a context of crisis that imposes another concept of development. The convening of such a conference would not have been as crucial just a decade ago. Today, it is urgent to reduce greenhouse gases and to limit the global increase in temperatures to 2° at most. The European trade unions also point out that climate change can and must have the ambition of becoming a driver of sustainable growth and of social progress in the fight against poverty and social inequalities."