2nd Wed - we wait....

Better organisation to get in this morning, except they closed the metro stop and we walked the km or so up the road, under the metro and joined "the Q". So after starting an hour earlier, despite better channeling, and.... only 45 minutes - so not much change! However, as the snow stopped and it's now just damp and grey, it was quite refreshing. Today, they finally stopped registering people - they got to 45,000 - and remember that the limit was only 15k....

We got ourselves in, and attended the daily BINGO debrief, and then I went and joined the DHL line to send back some stuff. An hour later...

Anyway, the news is not good - but NOT so bad, either. There is rather too much stuff been left for the heavies to sort out, but they're giving it a go. The US got cained in last night's Fossils, for turning the three page Bunker and Aviation Fuel draft plot into a 7 page fully bracketed disaster. (The reason Bunkers is important is that it offers a way to serious financing of the LDC support effort, but the rumour is that the US delegation has been told that giving in on Bunkers will assure certain defeat of the US climate change legislation in Congress - get the picture?)

We have spoken with people from all sorts of places - Congo, Samoa, Russia, etc. There is so much good will at our level - it's very frustrating that we wait and wait for the elephants to mate....