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Day 5 - Crunch time!
It's Friday night, but it's far from party time at the COP. There's still lots of work to do, and high-level ministerial talks start soon. Negotiations are scheduled to continue through tomorrow. Both AWG-LCA and AWG-KP released new drafts this morning, and the reactions to those are just about as people expected. China and India want the US to do more, the US wants China and India to commit, the G77 and AOSIS want everyone to pony up more cash and codify 1.5 degC or less of warming. Ministers start showing up this weekend, so people are pushing hard to nail things down. Text on other issues is progressing, but the attention of people not negotiating is focused on the LCA and KP sessions. It's going to be a late night for the negotiating teams, that's for sure.
Some of this frenzy is due to the fact that they have less time than normal - since Heads of State and Government are coming next week, the text needs to be more or less settled by then. So, apparently, what you'd normally see on the last few days is happening now.
Speaking of heads of state and government - next week is going to be interesting. 100+ heads of state all here at the same time...
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Posted By: Thomas Lee @ 1:26 AM |