Well, it’s all over bar the plenary sessions where the Chairs of the process summarise progress. The first session, on the Kyoto Protocol track started late, and the other session on the Bali Action Plan track will start when the other one finishes. But I have had enough! It was quite exciting in the open session today on the Adaptation track. New text came out late yesterday afternoon, a group of us looked at it: it is rather vague and weak on definite action on implementation, and the G77 and China group came out in full force against the new text! This clearly took the chairs of the session aback. After a long session (3.5 hours instead of 1.5 hours) and several ‘huddles’ of developing country negotiators to discuss tactics, the way forward is to have both texts on the table in Copenhagen. So much for reducing text down to a manageable number of paragraphs!

Despite all the pessimism earlier in the week, about possible or likely outcomes in Copenhagen, the NGO view is that we can and must fight for a full legal outcome in Copnehagen – that it is possible. We have a meeting with DFID on Wednesday, and we will be pressing them on constructive action they can take, and questioning them on their position on some of the controversial issues. I am off to see daylight! It is sunny outside, but the conference centre is windowless, and it really drains my energy not to get fresh air and sunshine.

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