The people’s real representatives

Brazilian girl in charge of following the negotiators and telling what is happening says that Cop-15 isn’t being transparent. The “followers” of India, China and the United States talk about the position of their countries and what the civil society thinks.

Juliana is 24 years old. And she’s on a very special mission in this Cop-15: to tell (almost) everything happening on the Brazilian negotiations here at the Bella Center to regular people, the non-experts on the subject, but who are (and must be) watching over what our representatives are deciding for us. Juliana believes that every citizen in this world has the right to know what their world leaders (ultimately, people like us) are negotiating on our behalf and how they are doing that. “By sharing this kind of information, we can increase the pressure for a fair, ambitious and bounding agreement in Copenhagen”, she wrote.

Graduated in International Relations, Juliana Russar is one of the 13 trackers from the international project “Track a Negotiator”, an initiative created by the international campaign Tck Tck Tck (in Brazil, Tic tac Tic Tac) Tck Tck Tck to make the processes in Copenhagen more transparent to the public. Juliana has been following the climate negotiations since 2007 – and she became a tracker in August this year, soon after the project was created. She has also been at the two last Cops, and has followed the preparatory meetings for Cop-15, which happened throughout the year in places like Bangkok, in Thailand, and Barcelona, in Spain. In a chat yesterday evening, where she had been waiting for more than seven hours for the beginning of a meeting, Juliana tells how things are going and explains why Cop-15 has been less transparent than the others.

Further the trackers from three key countries in Cop-15 (India, China and the United States) talk about what they think about the position of their countries at the conference, and what the civil society from their nations says.