It is a very revealing to see behind the curtain of the United Nations. I can see that the years that have been put in have been ones of hard one negotiations and that there is a lot to get through in the next days and I am standing for an agreement to come and looking for ways to contribute every day and a lot of my time is just trying to figure it all out so as to not cause any issues myself.
There three levels of negotiations the first of which have been going on since June for this meeting and of course drawing on the meetings right back to Kyoto. These first negotiations are carried out by the parties most of whom have been attending COP for a long time.
The second level takes whatever cannot be agreed by the first round and puts it into the hands of the ministers who will bet attending soon. Anything they cannot resolve is then bumped up to the heads of state who will then do the final negotiations when they arrive next week. This COP though does not provide for much time for heads of state to negotiate so there is a big focus on getting agreement on as much as possible as early as possible.
