星期三，丹麦警方使用催泪弹和警棍驱赶数百名抗议者。他们试图冲破在哥本哈根举行的联合国气候大会外面设置的路障。当局报导说，贝拉中心外有200多人被逮捕。在贝拉中心内，活动人士静坐抗议一个环保组织的成员被驱逐。他们说这一环保组织得到官方认可但是被拒绝入内。
大会将于星期五落幕。但谈判代表目前未能就减少碳排放的新目标达成共识，也没有在资助贫困国家应对气候变化问题上达成一致。不过，代表们星期三审议了一份埃塞俄比亚的提案。提案要求富裕国家到2020年以前提供1000亿美元资助，抵消全球变暖对非工业化国家造成的影响。与此同时，丹麦前气候部长康妮.赫泽高星期三辞去大会主席一职。
Danish police used tear gas and clubs Wednesday to beat back hundreds of protesters trying to storm barricades outside the United Nations Climate conference in Copenhagen. Authorities reported more than 200 arrests outside the Bella Center. Inside the facility, activists staged a sit-in to protest against the expulsion of members of an environmental group they say had been accredited but denied entry.
With the conference set to end Friday, negotiators have so far failed to agree on new targets for reducing carbon gas emissions, or for financing the efforts of poor countries to cope with climate change. However, delegates Wednesday were examining a proposal from Ethiopia for $100 billion in funding from wealthy nations by 2020 to offset the impact of global warming in non-industrialized countries. Meanwhile, former Danish Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard resigned Wednesday from the conference presidency.