The intensity is palpable and spread thick across Copenhagen.  Within the Bella Center, the pressure is mounting on all parties as we launch into the final week of negotiations and hit crunch time.

Developing countries are reacting negatively to demands being made by developed countries, which haven't been matched by commitments to financing and emissions reduction targets.  Developing countries demand developed nations put their numbers on the table, as promised in the 2007 Bali Action Plan.  They want certainty about long-term as well as short-term finance, stressing the need for predictable finance for planning well into the future. 

This morning, a number of developing countries walking out of a closed session today, shutting down that particular session.  In other instances, developed countries are continuing conversations regardless of walk-outs. Although some sessions have been frozen, there has not (yet) been a large-scale developing counrty walk-out of Bella Center, something we expect to see later this week.  

Reportedly, the President of the conference, Connie Hedegaard will make a speech at noon or 1pm today to lay out a way forward with the negotiations.  The path forward may involve smaller numbers of countries coming together in additional closed sessions to try and hash out key differences.

From Wednesday on, country delegations will essentially be locked up arguing among themselves.  The plan is to kick out many other Bella Center participants.  As 130+ heads of state arrive, governments will be under even greater pressure to work out significant differences and announce a credible, non-trivial political agreement to the world by end-of-day Friday.

Mid-day Monday at the Bella Center there are two hour waits to get into the building, and the meeting is already well over-capacity, despite attempts to moderate participation, asking non-governmental participants to cull their number to 30% of originally approved numbers.

Rebecca Lutzy is reporting live from Copenhagen. 

Rebecca is the Content and Community Manager at The Energy Collective and Ph.D. candidate in Princeton University's Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program, focused on climate and energy policy.