Christiana Climate ‘Bottom’ Meeting - Windows of Hope

This is the meeting that is parallel to the Climate summit, primarily
taking place at Christiana
Brother Golo was one of the speakers of a morning programs on
Sustainable Energy.  In the introduction to the event it was mentioned
that solar, wind, hydro-electrical, geo-thermal and biomass energy
together with energy conservation should be a central part of the
energies policies of the future.  This is the way to achieve a CO2
neutral society, where growth is measured in “soft’ and immaterial
values. It was held in the main tent and was attended by about 60
people.

Golo informed the audience about the latest solar development scheme in
India to install 20,000MW until 2020. .  He then gave a power point
presentation and spoke of the Brahma Kumaris activities in the field of
renewable energies and finished the presentation by saying that lasting
change can only be achieved ay a change in consciousness and practicing
values

Climate Change TV arranged and interviews with Sister Jayanti and Sonja
at the Brahma Kumaris stand at the Klimafourm, along with a well known
Danish musician Peter Bastian and Allan Alfred Hensen from “We
Collaborate” - the organization that was facilitating these interviews.
The general theme was how to continue after COP15.

COP 15

In the afternoon Mr. Al Gore was scheduled to speak at a side event
called “Melting Snow and Ice:  A Call to Action” which was to be held
opposite our stand, and over a period of about half an hour a crowd
started to build with many press.  By the time Mr. Gore arrived a few
hundred people had collected outside the room unable to enter the
already packed hall.  Many milled around waiting for him to come out of
the room for a glimpse or photograph, the result was that some wandered
to our stand where Julia and Golo had the opportunity to tell them about
our perspective.  One such person was a young woman from an organization
called “Creative Climate”, who interviewed Golo.  Creative Climate is a
diary project that will record how people understand and respond to
environmental change over the next decade.  It is a project hosted by
the Open University and includes linked broadcasts by the BBC.

On leaving the Bella Center we were given a piece of paper being given
to all NGOs by security informing us of further restrictions . . . from
Wednesday only 7,000 NGOs would be admitted due to capacity restrictions
- 15,000 capacity - 45,000 registrations!

Time to Change

On a dark and cold night over 200 people in contact with the local BK
centre, gathered in a beautifully decorated hall in the centre of
Copenhagen to listen to sister Jayanti speak on the theme “Time to
Change”.

She shared the highlights and impressions she gathered from the
different events she participated in during her days in Copenhagen and
the Climate Change meetings. She mentioned Mr. Yvo de Boer, Executive s
Secretary of the UNFCC has said “This crisis is not a climatic crisis
but a moral crisis”. Sister Jayanti continued by explaining how values
and morals are part of the inner being and this is what people can
change through understanding the self more deeply and through
experiencing the very core of their being through meditation.
She also shared how people are now talking about systemic change, or
system change however, history shows, change happens, as Margaret Mead a
social scientist has said, “Only when a small group of committed
individuals make it happen”. Sis Jayanti explained a system cannot
transform itself, but a small group of committed people can change a
system.  The change has to happen in me - When I change the world
changes.  If I am in touch with my inner core I’ll respond peacefully.

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