Climate summit organisation in disarray

It was billed as the most important meeting in history. Naturally, as the whole purpose is to save the planet, or at least keep it inhabitable for human beings. But the UN climate conference in Copenhagen itself has so far been pretty uninhabitable for many of the human beings trying to attend.

Thousands of participants from civil society and the media, but also high-level officials from international institutions and members of national delegations to the conference, have had to wait o...