You
may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a
good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught
up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.
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Early November flowers
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Taking an important phone call
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Contemplation of running water
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A bi-national "press conference for urging to stop coast reclamation of Japan and Korea"
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Korean kids were everywhere, and fabulously cute. Bouncily energetic, but always well-behaved nonetheless.
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And mostly patient
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Some of our most relaxing moments were spent in the cheerful supermarket Lotte next door in the mall . . .
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. . . stocking up on Hite beer for the hotel room.
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A congenial venue, with several restaurants, a convenience store, metal-detector gates everywhere, and a first-aid station with Tyrenol.
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"Another Way To Rescue The Earth." (Just one of many.) The Korean organizers had delegates voluntarily paying out 30 or 40 dollars to offset their carbon for having got here.
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Call to Duty
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sans paroles
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Anywhere you can find three drums and a funny hat, it's a party.
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Document Distribution managed flawlessly as usual by Montse, with help from Hugo on loan from IUCN Species Survival and a lot of Korean volunteers
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A hasty dinner at the faux-Italian restaurant "Bruschetta" with other old friends of our former colleague Satoshi (2nd from right)
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3 November 2008 was Korea Kimchi Day, with more than 40 varieties on display.
At our farewell dinner, I tried one of them.
Never again. Never.
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Imaginative Korean woodcarvings
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Tigers everywhere
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The Happiness through Delicious Life
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The Convention Centre in the afternoon
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Convention Centre at 3 a.m.
The documentation/translation teams get the results of each day's negotiations out in revised documents by the start of play the next morning.
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Last one out, turn out the lights.
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The overnight cleaning crew
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Facing the elevators on the 12th floor of the Pullman City 7 hotel. Not sleepy anymore.
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Dawn over Changwon on the last day of the COP, 4 November 2008
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The famous "Climate Change and Wetlands" Draft Resolution, which made it to Revision 3 and then, as time was running out, had to go directly up on the screens
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An ad hoc drafting group on climate change huddling in the lobby with a very tight deadline.
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"And so on,"
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Tense moments with time running out to get it all adopted
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Alternate President Kim Chan-woo briefing the Minister of the Environment, Lee Maanee, President of the COP, on the next agenda item -- the Secretary General, Anada Tiéga, smiling beatifically.
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On the screen: Peck photographing friend Gerhard from the back
Foreground: Austrian head of delegation Gerhard from the back. Screens Upon Screens.
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Ramsar's Pragati Tuladhar, COP Vice President Patrick van Klaveren of Monaco, Kim Chan-woo, Director-General of the Ministry of Environment, and Rapporteur Tim Jones
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End of the COP -- time for a stiff drink and some kimchi
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A delegate from Iraq with his Korean admirers.
Korean girls, when photographed, nearly always flash the V-for-Victory sign.
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Tim Jones and a Rapporteur wannabee
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Ramsar's Monica and Mila with Jiyoung, who was seconded from Korea to the Secretariat in Switzerland for the months prior to the COP. (V-for-Victory.)
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Peck transfixed, with Ramsar's Americas team, María and Mila.
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Exhausted documentation and translation teams, after the final plenary sessions
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Delirious translators' hijinks after several near-allnighters
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Another translation error
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Traditional COP photo with Marta, head of the Spanish translation team
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Some of the Spanish team
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Some of the French team, Ginette and Hélène
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Juan Carlos Valdovinos, an expert photographer as well as a translator for the UN and Ramsar, amongst others
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A party for Ramsar and Korean staff hosted by the Ministry of Environment
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The Secretary General congratulating the translation teams
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Rapporteur Tim Jones and Danièle, head of the French translation team
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Translators Christiane and Juan Carlos, festive
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Toasts all round and a general sense of relief
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Now with Rachel deservedly in the photo as well
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Celebratory mood
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An especially celebratory mood
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No time lost dismantling all evidence of the recent COP: Rapporteur Jones salvaging a souvenir info banner on its way to the recycling.
A one-day walkabout in Changwon
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Street markets in the Changwon neighborhoods, 5 November 2008
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Every available inch of advertising space
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A citizen waiting to cross the road at the light
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"Pama" running shoes, and the Hair Collection
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They're everywhere!
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Chick'n the Home
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A back seat driver
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My daughter Marlowe's namesake Christopher, all lit up at the hotel desk. "Just a decoration", they said.
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Our last view of Changwon, Busan Gimhae Airport: "Sweet Bun's"