On the final day of the conference, the media — and everyone else — is looking forward to an outcome, any outcome of a two-week marathon that was supposed to lead to cuts in greenhouse gas emisions and a 2010 deadline for a legally binding treaty.

When you’re one of thousands of people trying to get a message out at once, you need an edge.

“It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Arnold Schwarzenegger says in Copenhagen. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.”

“Every great technology leap forward, every new technology era has been wealth generation,” EBA CEO Fiona Wain said. “The ET leap forward will be no different.”

Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term.

Demonstrators came out in force early Saturday morning as the sun broke through the clouds that have blanketed Copenhagen during the first week of COP15.

With the hotels and hostels booked solid, some Danes have opened their homes to some of the 34,000 delegates who were tardy in their bookings. But it’s not cheap.

The debate over lowering greenhouse gas emissions is sometimes depicted as a fight between environmental groups concerned over the health of the planet and businesses concerned about economic growth and bottom-line erosion. Occasionally, though, there is a meeting of like minds between the two.

Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but they’ll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com

Do the protests and demonstrations that pop up each day in Copenhagen make a difference or are they nothing more than an entertaining distraction?

In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations.

It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth “bed in” at the COP15 conference center.

The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. It’s also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming.

Walking through the Copenhagen airport, it’s pretty much impossible to miss the signs that the city’s focus is squarely on the climate. The signs, literally, are everywhere, with advertisements adorning the walls on your walk from the flight ramp through to baggage claim and off into the arrivals area.

Ask anyone about climate change and you likely will get the kind of emotional response not seen since George W Bush left office.