The sit-in action has been a great success capturing media attention globally. While a key activist instrumental in planning the action was roughly dragged out of the Bella Center, other FYEG delegates continued the peaceful but vocal protest into the early hours of the morning. The sit-in ended with protesters walking out after strained negotiations with security. They were threatened that continued action would lead to absolute exclusion of civil society observers from the conference center.

The end of the sit-in was described by a major German climate activist platform; “At two o’clock security issued an ultimatum: either the activists leave peacefully while security finishes their last coffee or be dragged out, put into jail and no civil society observer would be able to enter the Bella Center for the remainder of the conference.”

After a short discussion they decided to leave peacefully. One of the activists urged for “massive civil disobedience around the world” in response to the undemocratic and flawed negotiations.