{"id":146,"date":"2015-12-04T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalchangeecology.wordpress.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2015-12-04T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:51:50","slug":"adp-first-reading-of-the-draft-agreement-cop21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalchangeecology.com\/2015\/12\/04\/adp-first-reading-of-the-draft-agreement-cop21\/","title":{"rendered":"#ADP First Reading of the Draft Agreement #COP21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As it began, the first page of the Draft Agreement to be discussed here today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019ve been here for an hour. We\u2019re on paragraph two. We started on paragraph two. After dedicating the first 15 minutes to explaining the procedure for the day, the Co-Chair, Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, of the\u00a0Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) proceeded, as in the previous meetings, by discussing paragraph two, as the preamble and paragraph one are to be discussed at the end. Perhaps the explanation wasn\u2019t clear, Malaysia indicated to the ADP co-chair \u201csometimes you give a forest of words and I get lost in that forest\u201d. Of course the Co-Chair doesn\u2019t want to lose his negotiators in Borneo, he wants them to make progress. After 40 minutes, another delegate indicated, \u201cwe would like to come back to the preamble.\u201d Apparently he did get lost.<\/p>\n

From the get-go things were tense. Venezuela said to the Co-Chair “Chair, I don’t understand why you are so nervous. We are professional diplomats here, trust us!” To which he answered, “Trust me that I am relaxed, that I trust you, but we are under time stress so in that sense…yes I am stressed.”<\/p>\n

While some comments made have been serious and received support from the Co-Chair, saying “thank you, Argentina, for the saving half of the line from being bracketed\u201d, the opposite suggestion to introduce more brackets led to the Co-Chair commenting, “I thought that the purpose of this meeting was to delete brackets, but now we are adding them. Ok.” But Brazil captured the essence of this topic and the importance of making progress by saying \u201cI tend to view brackets as carbon molecules, polluting our text.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the pressure is on, to make progress and to move on to the next phase. So far the progress on the reading of the draft agreement has been very slow, and we are waiting for the outcomes to be productive and engaging, and not spoiling. The Co-Chair urges, \u201cthe last thing we want to do here is unravel all the hard work that has been done here.\u201d So we wish them all the progress that is needed on this document, whilst simultaneously enjoying the (at times unintended) climate-comedy.<\/p>\n

And as I come to the end of this update on the reading of this text, we are still on paragraph two.<\/p>\n

-Daniela Kretz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been here for an hour. We\u2019re on paragraph two. We started on paragraph two. After dedicating the first 15 minutes to explaining the procedure for the day, the Co-Chair, Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, of the\u00a0Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) proceeded, as in the previous meetings, by discussing paragraph […]<\/p>\n

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