A Chinese Minister, Bella's Access and the Tale of Nuclear Energy

It's pretty hard to get into COP15. You first need an affiliation with a party delegation (Country), media accreditations (journalists) or civil society (non-governmental organizations). This is Denmark where pedestrians cross at designated crosswalks, bicyclists stop for red lights and you must have proper identification badge to get into the Bella Center where most of COP15 events and negotiations are taking place. No badgie, no get innie.

When the Environmental Minister of China is refused access to the meeting place, it is brought up at the morning plenary session in the Tycho Brahe room. This is no small matter for China who comes to the table with the fact that they will be doubling their nuclear energy capacity by 2020. Chineses EU Ambassador Zhe Song reports, "In the 21st century, China will be one of the world's fastest-growing nuclear energy producers with the biggest installed capacity."

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), several hundred scientists and contributors, all recognised internationally as experts in their field, was brought together by the UN and World Meteorological Society to assess climate change. The IPCC has considered several scenarios into climate change mitigation responses, of which one includes the global expansion of nuclear power.

The nuclear industry's disingenuous claims to a role in alleviating climate change must be rejected for what they are: dangerous and self-serving fantasies which would create a serious legacy of deadly radioactive waste, increase the risks of catastrophic nuclear accidents and also vastly increase the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation.
Oh and by the way, China is not the only country looking at nuclear energy; India among other countries is coming to COP15 with nuclear energy as an an "alternative energy" that is "climate-friendly".

We don't want to upset the Environmental Minister of China; he will be given the royal treatment from now on at the Bella Center. Who knows who gets to push the little red button.

References:

http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/no.nukes/nenstcc.html#6
http://en.cop15.dk/Frontpage/Search+result?query=what+countries+who+want+to+increase+nuclear+energy