Any predictions for the COP 18 conference?

What impact will it have on Doha next week?

What good will come of it for the environment and the profile of Qatar as an emerging leader?

momerundum/protocol will be signed and that will be referred as Doha Protcol/Doha COP Agreement (as in Koyto) and then no one will adhere to it.

50 tonnes of lobster will be consumed, 50000 litres of champange will be drunk, 2000 flight and business class tickets used. 2000 5 star hotel rooms, 1000 high end luxury vehicles for transport. 269 handbags bought for wives/girlfriends/mistresses.

368 grand statements made and 0 progress on any important issue, except arranging the next part in another country sometime soon.

With delegates flying in from all over the world, using transportation with combustion engines and all the ancilliary activities while they are in Qatar....Qatar will continue to hold the HIGHEST CARBON FOOTPRINT IN THE WORLD!!! actually the numbers might increase cause Qatar currently stands at 55.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person (10 times the global average)

Well,I tried to rent a car two days back,but most of the rental company that I've been to said that ALL their cars had been fully booked for the convention...which make me wonder ,exactly how many people is attending this conference :s

Wow! What next?

How about building a whole city in the desert, with the need to import nearly everything and to get there we will all drive our 4x4s and not worry about the gas prices as it's so cheap!

Why couldn't the conference be held "virtually"? Then there would be no need for anyone to travel, use resources (most imported)or disrupt the already dire traffic (is direrer a word?).

Bringing all these people here which already has the largest carbon footprint in the world seems counterproductive to say the least.

Sadly it's just another talking shop. Hot air. The chances of producing any significant agreements are Zero - in my opinion.
And the irony of holding it in one of the least environmentally friendly countries on Earth will not be lost on many delegates. Qatar should think carefully before hosting conferences like this. Will the overall impression of the nation gained by attendees be positive? I rather doubt it.

I believe QP are currently flaring off even more sulphur laden gas near Messaieed than usual. Tons of the stuff going up in smoke.

May be Doha protocol and Doha Declaration might have some good results such some mandatory guidelines this time instead of some voluntary ones.

Lets see. Now or later earth will be destroyed completely as per all the major religious doctrines. This is really contradictory topic for me.

I'm just hoping they will have a publicity shot in the Gulf Times of a bunch of guys sitting behind a long table with a log-printed background.

Once I see that, I will know that the environmental crisis is solved.

QDCL and now the delegates are complaining that the eateries in the the convention are highly over priced, even the European and US is complaining, was on the back page of the Gulf time yesterday!

It appears that the delegates have ended up spending much more than they bargained for. Since now some of them are going hungry during the COP18 summit they can not concentrate and hence they will be no major outcomes!

Maybe I should take them down QDC so they can stock up their hotel rooms with cheap(er) booze.

It seems the tax payers of many countries will take a kicking once the expenses bills are presented.

so does anybody know what was the outcome of the several day summit?
are the industrial countries going to reduce emission?

will we continuously have buses using gas as fuel?

are we going to recycle our plastic, paper, glass...etc, or will everything end up as trash, as usual?

Is pollution going to be less?

Well a waste of two pointless weeks, well except for the hotels, bars and restuarants.

Nothing will get done..

Qatar, the world's third biggest exporter of natural gas, is also the world's biggest per capita emitter of carbon 50 tonnes a year, compared to 17 for the US and 1.4 for India. The country makes the majority of its $170bn annual income from oil and gas.

The level of wealth of Qatar and their responsibility for emissions means that they should be contributing. It would add a lot of momentum to the talks if they made a financial pledge, and would encourage other countries in the region to show solidarity and help countries that are afflicted by the burning of fossil fuels.

Pointless, pointless, pointless. If climate change is man made and that is debatable then these idiots in rich and poor countries are a disgrace to humanity. I hope their wives/girlfriends/mistresses enjoyed their shopping treats and the delegates got to eat some first class food

the debates over. Its just that our so called leaders just cant let go of capitalism

Habann - dont you know that democracy only gets in the way of capitalism? Lift your game.

Well they actually agreed that Rich nations should compensate poor ones..

Now who defines who is poor ?

britexpat--the rich define who is poor.

US is poor because they had a sandy and they need money to wash the a*rses of other countries. (: