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Sunday, December 06, 2009

Christmas Trees banned at Climate Summit

But Christmas is a religious holiday that has no place at a United Nations function, according to the Foreign Ministry’s Svend Olling, who is the head of practical planning for the climate summit.

  • ‘We have to remember that this is a UN conference and, as the centre then becomes UN territory, there can be no Christmas trees in the decor, because the
  • UN wishes to maintain neutrality,’ said Olling.

Nordmann firs otherwise fully live up to the climate-friendliness standards of the summit’s organisers. The firs are among the best trees at binding carbon dioxide and preventing its release into the atmosphere."

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