Nature documentaries mark end of conference

The meeting has failed to reach an agreement, and that's a good thing. The talks are over, and the televisions inside the convention centre that showed the open proceedings all week are now running nature documentaries on flamingos.

It is chaotic inside the convention centre, as delegates have left the main meeting room and are speaking with the media and NGOs. Many people have put their "explicit consent" lanyards back on, and some NGO delegates are chanting "No means No" to reinforce the failure of the talks.

The talks ended when the Kenyan delegation, frustrated on the lack of progress on agriculture issues, walked out of the meeting.

Many on our team are inside the convention centre, speaking to the press and other NGOs. They are saying the WTO process created so many problems for the non-corporate world (the rest of us) that it was bound to fail. Now there needs to be an international effort to create a more accountable process for coming up with trade rules that respect environmental and social concerns.

The rest of the team are back at the office, calling media and translating statements. The European Union is preparing to hold a press conference to explain their role in the failure of the talks.

We were planning on holding a low key demonstration near the end of the meeting this afternoon, but it has now been cancelled. We have two large eyeball balloons that we were going to inflate with helium and fly from outside our office, to remind the delegates (who could see them from the building) that the world was watching what kind of deals they reached.