Round and around (COP 15)
I made it into the AWG-LCA Plenary which started at 10pm (note: this is the negotiating track that includes the US). Maybe it’s lack of sleep, but I get the distinct impression that this is going round in circles. One party asks for focus on content, then next asks a process question, the next jumps back to content, the next insists on clarification of the process, and so it continues. There appears to be a roughly 30/70 split between parties who want to work through the night, and those who want to go to bed.
There are two negotiating tracks here at the COP, and 99% of the negotiators have to be involved in both tracks, which means that as the AWG-KP is progressing, the AWG-LCA is on hold, and vice versa.
Two tracks running in circles and connecting somewhere in the middle… It puts me in mind of the infinity symbol. And I’m getting the impression that this discussion is – by design – destined to continue ad infinitum without resolution.
And this is how humanity has chosen to determine its fate on earth.
STOP PRESS: at 11.05pm the session was suspended.
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