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The Floor Bulletin

Notes kept on the summit wire

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The Caucus

the side rooms where contact groups draft the text the floor will argue about

Briefs on this beat

  1. A queue of conference observers waiting outside a closed meeting room door, badges on lanyards, a sign reading SESSION CLOSED TO OBSERVERS caucus Observers in the room Who the observers at a climate summit are, what their badges allow, and why their presence matters to the process.
  2. Delegates gathered in a corridor around a laptop screen reading a projected draft text, badges on lanyards, coffee cups on a ledge caucus The contact group method The step-by-step path a negotiating paragraph follows, from first proposal to gavel.
  3. A small windowless conference side room with a U-shaped table, laptops open, paper drafts covered in handwritten annotations, water bottles and a flip chart caucus The side room where the text gets drafted How negotiating text is actually produced in side rooms, and what the square brackets in a draft mean.

In detail

01Observers in the roomcaucus

Who the observers at a climate summit are, what their badges allow, and why their presence matters to the process. The Caucus ·

02The contact group methodcaucus

The step-by-step path a negotiating paragraph follows, from first proposal to gavel. The Caucus ·

03The side room where the text gets draftedcaucus

How negotiating text is actually produced in side rooms, and what the square brackets in a draft mean. The Caucus ·