The President spent his days in meetings in Copenhagaen trying to reach an agreement.
The President had a series of bilateral meetings including with the Prime Minister of Denmark, Premier of China, the President of Brazil , the Preisident of Russia. The President also participated in plenum meetings. By the end of the day it was becoming clear that an agreement was not going to be reached President Obama took the lead and tried to work out an agreement between the largest emitters, and growing emmitters, China, India, Brail and South Africa. He reached an agreement with them, the Europeans then signed off on the agreement .