EfD just celebrated its 9th annual conference in Shanghai. We had wonderful lectures from prominent lecturers like Siqi Zheng (Professor Tsinghua University), Dick Morgenstern (Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future) and E Somanathan (Professor, Indian Statistical Institute). I feel proud we can attract such great minds and so many enthusiastic young researchers from all across the world.
Note: This blogpost was published by the Economist on October 12, 2015 read original blogpost here
Wednesday Evening 9th April Berlin.
We just decided to prolong the extra evening session from 7 PM to 10 PM and then to 1 AM. Towards midnight the room is looking empty with only 150 people present but the Japanese delegation has seven people. Many are in “contact groups” consisting of authors and country delegates trying to agree on issues that have held up the plenary for hours earlier during the week.
Sunday 6th April.
60 people have been sitting from 8.00 AM to 11 PM in the Estrel Hotel. These 60 are the CLAs (Coordinating Lead Authors) and some Lead Authors and the Cochairs and the staff of the Technical Support Unit. So far it is “practice”, we have been going through our Summary For Policymakers (SPM). This is the document that is to be agreed, line by line with the governments of the world in the Approval Session.