Bali!
Okay, so here I am in Bali. And boy, is it hot! It's a little bit like swimming, only outside, and the water's in the air. The free bikes provided by the UNFCCC secretariat are a real boon - the faster you pedal, the sooner you get to the next water station.

I'm currently sitting in the main plenary session, listening to the head of the GEF bid to get control of the newly established Adaptation Fund - this is a BAD THING. The GEF is a bureaucratic, inefficient, unresponsive, pointless beast, and it sounds like it's going to render the Adaptation Fund equally useless... oh dear. Sorry for that wonky note. Also, the negotiator in this session from the Phillipines is great - she seems to be the only one who reads the supporting documents.

The negotiations are a bit crazy - as you can probably tell, it's incredibly arcane and it's impossible to keep track of everything. At the moment I'm in a delegation working group, two youth caucus working groups, and I'm trying to follow the negotiations about adaptation! Something's gotta give, not least because I haven't been for a swim since the first day I got here.