Copenhagen climate change conference in pictures: Day eight

epa01965347 An environmental activist clads as a clown from Climate No Borders cycles in front of Danish police vans during a demonstration Copenhagen, Denmark, 14. December 2009. Photograph: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen/guardian.co.uk

Participants of the United Nations Climate Change Conference sit in front of a placard at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen on December 14, 2009. Photograph: Axel Schmidt/guardian.co.uk

Delegation members from Lesotho (R) talk prior a meeting at the Plenary Tycho Brahe of the Bella center of Copenhagen on December 14, 2009 on the the 8th day of the UN Climate Change Conference. Africa's frustration at the UN climate summit boiled over Monday as delegates walked out of key talks and continental giant Nigeria warned the negotiations were now on red alert. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/guardian.co.uk

Environment activists from Climate No Borders shout during a demonstration in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 14, 2009. Warning that "time is running out," UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed to world leaders Monday to redouble efforts to secure a compromise deal on climate change in Copenhagen late this week. Photograph: Liselotte Sabroe/guardian.co.uk

Representatives of the meeting (from L) Prime Minister Kuupik Kleist of Greenland, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller, American scientist Bob Corell and Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store listen to a report on the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, at the Bella center of Copenhagen on December 14, 2009 on the the 8th day of the UN Climate Change Conference. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/guardian.co.uk

Former US Vice President Al Gore speaks at a presentation on melting ice and snow at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 14, 2009. Photograph: Bob Strong/guardian.co.uk

Several hundred protesters march during a Climate No Borders demonstration in Copenhagen December 14, 2009. Photograph: Scanpix Sweden/guardian.co.uk

A climate activist has dressed up as a horseman of the Apocalypse and demonstrates in front of the Danish Parliament on the occasion of the World Climate Conference in Copenhagen, December 14, 2009. The climate talks have now entered a decisive phase. Photograph: Kay Nietfeld/guardian.co.uk

US secretary of energy Steven Chu stands in front of a power point presentation showing the heat situation inside a house as he delivers his statement during a press conference at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, December 14, 2009. He announced the Climate REDI (Renewables and Efficiency, Deployment Initiative). Photograph: Heribert Proepper/guardian.co.uk

Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" heads towards making a speech to youth organizations at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, December 14, 2009. Photograph: Khan Tariq Mikkel/guardian.co.uk

Newly arrived delegates and journalists wait to get their accreditations on December 14, 2009, at the entrance of the Bella Center as they arrive for the COP15, the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Photograph: Keld Navntoft/guardian.co.uk

The sign 'survival' is placed on to the delegate table of the Cook Islands, in the plenary hall at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, December 14, 2009. Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/guardian.co.uk

British Environment Minister Ed Miliband, seen, during a press briefing at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, December 14, 2009. Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/guardian.co.uk

Activists at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, December 14, 2009, who are asking rich countries to support poor countries to reduce their emissions. If they do not agree to help lives and livelihoods of people living in poor communities, especially in Africa, will be threatened, they said. Photograph: Heribert Proepper/guardian.co.uk

Germany's Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen (L) talks with Karsten Sach of the German Environment Ministry before the start of an EU negotiators meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 14, 2009. Photograph: Bob Strong/guardian.co.uk

A man tries the first custom electric American chopper at the City Hall, in Copenhagen, Denmark, 13 December 2009. Siemens has teamed up with renowned custom motorcycle manufacturer Orange County Choppers to build this chopper. Photograph: Yoan Valat/guardian.co.uk

Danish people try out bicycles being set up to produce electricity in the center of Copenhagen, December 13, 2009. It isn't easy getting Italy's city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to ride to work, "like here in Copenhagen,'' says an Italian environmental official during the climate summit. Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/guardian.co.uk

Danish driver Kamilla Sorensen lifts her trophy of Shell Eco-marathon of this summer racing, presented her car used one liter fuel by 589 kms during an electric and hybrids cars presentation of an enviromental exhibition in downtown of Copenhagen on December 13, 2009. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/guardian.co.uk

A group of demonstrators calling themselves 'Lobbyists for Profitable Climate Solutions' hold a protest outside a trade expo featuring eco-friendly products in Copenhagen December 13, 2009. Photograph: Bob Strong/guardian.co.uk

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair smiles with Danish COP15 President Connie Hedegaard during a press conference in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Copenhagen, December 13, 2009. Photograph: Claus Bjorn Larsen/guardian.co.uk

Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change Congerence Austrian Yvo de Boer (R) holds a symbolical cowndown clock as he receives from Archbishop Desmond Tutu (L) a global petition with 512,894 signatures seeking climate justice during a 'Time for Climate Justice' public event in Copenhagen, December 13, 2009. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/guardian.co.uk

Police clash with journalists and photographers during "Hit-The-Production" demonstration near the Copenhagen Harbour November 13, 2009. Photograph: Scanpix Denmark/guardian.co.uk

Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1984 Archbishop Desmond Tutu from South Africa, Bishop Sofie Petersen from Greenland and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, from right, look up as they attend an ecumenical celebration in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, December 13, 2009. Shortly after the service Denmark's churches rang their bells 350 times which was the central act of a worldwide international bell ringing initiative. The bell ringing symbolizes the 350 parts per million that mark the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere according to scientists. Photograph: Heribert Proepper/guardian.co.uk

Denmark's Queen Margrethe, left, and Prince Henrik, right, attend an ecumenical celebration in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, December 13, 2009. Shortly after the service Denmark's churches rang their bells 350 times which was the central act of a worldwide international bell ringing initiative. The bell ringing symbolizes the 350 parts per million that mark the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere according to scientists. Photograph: Heribert Proepper/guardian.co.uk

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses the gathering via video link from New York as delegates (From R) Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences Professor Elinor Ostrom, professor of economics at Indiana University, Danish Environment Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, UN Special Envoy on climate issues Gro Harlem Brundtland and chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Nobel Peace prize Rajendra Pachauri look on at Forest Day 3 in the Falconer Convention Center in Copenhagen on December 13, 2009. Forest Day Three is an international conference on the world's forests, which focuses on the role of forests in climate. Photograph: Casper Christoffersen/guardian.co.uk

Danish riot police scuffle with demonstrators in Copenhagen, Denmark, 13 December 2009. Police arrested about 100 demonstrators as they were taking part in a demonstration to stop the traffic at the Copenhagen port. Police stopped them on their way as the walk was not authorized. Photograph: Yoan Valat/guardian.co.uk