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The Bulletin

the daily sheets, briefings and publications that carry a summit to the outside

Briefs on this beat

  1. A stack of freshly printed A4 newsletters on a hostel floor in front of a hotel room door, one sheet being slid underneath, early morning light bulletin ECO: the civil society bulletin inside the summit What ECO is, who writes it, how it differs from the secretariat's daily bulletin and the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and why civil society has kept producing it since 1972.
  2. A row of archival storage boxes and external hard drives on a metal shelf in a dim server room, single lamp glow bulletin The archive that outlives the summit Why the archived website of a dissolved coalition is the best surviving record of it, and how to read such an archive.
  3. Six printed copies of the same statement laid side by side on a table, each in a different language, a translator's pencil and dictionary beside them bulletin The press release that travelled How a single statement travels through six languages, and what each translation changes.
  4. A printed two-page policy briefing held over a conference table beside a laptop and a coffee, the first page dense with a title and three bullet points bulletin What a briefing is for The craft of the policy briefing: length, structure, timing, and the discipline of the single page.
  5. A stack of freshly printed A4 newsletters on a hostel floor in front of a hotel room door, one sheet being slid underneath, early morning light bulletin The daily sheet under the door Why climate summits produce daily bulletins, who writes them, and what they carry that official communiques cannot.

In detail

01ECO: the civil society bulletin inside the summitbulletin

What ECO is, who writes it, how it differs from the secretariat's daily bulletin and the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and why civil society has kept producing it since 1972. The Bulletin ·

02The archive that outlives the summitbulletin

Why the archived website of a dissolved coalition is the best surviving record of it, and how to read such an archive. The Bulletin ·

03The press release that travelledbulletin

How a single statement travels through six languages, and what each translation changes. The Bulletin ·

04What a briefing is forbulletin

The craft of the policy briefing: length, structure, timing, and the discipline of the single page. The Bulletin ·

05The daily sheet under the doorbulletin

Why climate summits produce daily bulletins, who writes them, and what they carry that official communiques cannot. The Bulletin ·