The big question Friday was when the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali would finish as negotiations went deep into the night of the last day.
The U.N. conference, which opened on Dec. 3, has drawn all eyes on the Indonesian island of Bali as it aimed for a breakthrough in the form of a roadmap for a future international agreement on enhanced global action to fight climate change in the period after 2012, the year the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires.
Do you need more examples to fathom the magnitude of the U.N. conference? The following are some statistics to wrap up the meeting:
There were 10,886 participants at the Bali conference, making it the largest U.N. climate change conference ever held.
There were 3,527 delegates from 188 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and three observer states.
There were 5,037 representatives of 349 non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
There were 1,497 members of the press from 530 media organizations.
Around 5,600 hotel rooms in the conference venue Nusa Dua resort were booked.
The heart of the conference was the Bali International Convention Center (BICC) at The Westin Resort where all activities were centered. There are two conference halls with the capacities of 1,300 and 800 people respectively.
A total of 28 meeting rooms had their doors revolving for participants to hold their discussions, or even heated debates.
Tennis courts were even turned into meeting places.
Big tents were erected around the venue compound for meetings and other side-events. To keep participants from sweating, the tents were also equipped with air conditioners.
A media center was set up in the parking zone to accommodate over one thousand journalists flown in from all over the world. The media center was open 24/7, with the peak hours in the evening.
The event occupied 5,525 square meters of the Westin/BICC compound, the biggest event ever organized in Bali, the "island of the Gods".
All plenary sessions were held between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m..
To serve over 10,000 conference participants, 550 students and graduates of Bali School of Tourism were available as liaison officers.
The organizer offered over 50 gallons of drinking water every day.
How about paper consumption? An average of 270 reams per day, with a peak of 300 reams per day in the second week of the meeting.
Source: Xinhua
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