Climate Change Conference Doing The Right Thing,,

Denmark's beautiful capital, Copenhagen, will host the climate change summit from December 7th to 18th, and the entire event will be carbon neutral - no mean feat for a meeting of more than 12,000 delegates.

The summit will be attended by world leaders and will focus on securing a deal to lower global carbon emissions.

The lighting used in the conference centre will be sustainable LED, the pens delegates will be scribbling away with will be made from recycled plastic bottles and a wind turbine will power the centre.

Attendees will arrive at the summit on bicycles or one variation of Copenhagen's public transport system.

US President Barack Obama could travel in a limo running on algae diesel or electricity when he drops into the summit next week.

Svend Olling, who's in charge of conference logistics for the Danish government, says it's imperative that a summit on tackling climate change does not itself contribute to the problem.

"There are expectations that when we host a conference like this, we deliver it in a green, sustainable way," Mr Olling said from his office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in central Copenhagen.

As most of the carbon footprint will come from delegates flying into Denmark, conference organisers plan to offset this by funding energy efficient brick factories in Bangladesh to replace 20 dirty ones.

Instead of giftbags, the gift fund will instead go towards paying for 11 scholarships for students to come and study climate change in Danish universities.

The food and drink offered at the conference will all be fair-trade or organic, with tap water being drunk from biodegradable corn starch cups rather than bottled water in eco-unfriendly plastic bottles.

The host of the event, the Bella Center, has cut its power use by 20 per cent for the conference. Thirty per cent of Denmark's general electricity supply already comes from renewable energy, mainly wind.