Some members of the delegation planned to return Saturday to India, where there are other challenges to tackle:, not least New Delhi’s annual surge in air pollution that leaves its inhabitants gasping.
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The past few days have been a flurry of bilateral meetings for the Indian minister, Bhupender Yadav, and his top officials. In two weeks, the words “I love this sandwich” have never been overheard. The conference’s cafes offer egg mayonnaise sandwiches, chicken mayonnaise sandwiches, and pork and pickle sandwiches, all on soft white bread. Vegetarian curries served with Indian flatbreads called chapatti were usually on the menu. The Indian delegation got “home-cooked meals” dinners during the conference, provided by a restaurateur who runs curry houses across Britain. Endless cups of chai flowed in preparation for what would be a long night. A vase in the office held fresh pink lilies. Delegates sat cross legged on the floor, typing furiously on their laptops. In the office of India’s delegation, there was muted excitement.
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The open doors of most other country’s offices – South Korea, Ivory Coast, Austria, and others – showed rooms full of diplomats bent intently over their laptops, eyes fixed on screens and fingers flying over keyboards.Ĭhinese diplomats crowded into one of their offices stopped working, laughed and took photos when a wayward robin hopped in among them, lost in the warren of temporary tents and the event center. diplomats mostly worked behind closed doors, with terse signs on the glass. The final stretch of negotiations over what nearly 200 governments will do next about fossil fuels heating the Earth to disastrous levels was like that Friday: National delegations engaged in frenetic, often mysterious activity as they haggled to get as much of their position as possible into the final agreement from the talks in Glasgow.
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climate talks in Scotland, a senior diplomat from Luxembourg came sprinting down a hallway inside the summit venue, his hair flying as he whooshed by clutching a sheaf of papers, only to vanish inside an office as abruptly as he appeared. GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - Thump, thump, thump.