The Floor Bulletin is a reader's journal about the organising culture of climate summits: the plenary floor and its gavel, the side rooms where contact groups draft, the daily bulletins slid under doors each morning, and the declarations that leave the room and travel. It is kept like the wire it borrows its name from: dated, ordered, carried under one of four beats, and kept legible for whoever reads it next.

What the wire covers

Four beats carry the journal. The Floor watches the hall: the gavel, the name plates, the walkout, the long night of the last session. The Caucus watches the side rooms: the contact groups, the bracketed text, the queue of observers. The Bulletin watches the papers: the daily sheet, the briefing, the press release that travels between languages. The Declaration watches the texts that leave the room: the signature lists, the translations, the reading twenty years on.

What the wire is not

The Floor Bulletin is not a coalition, a campaign or a secretariat. It collects no signatures, convenes no working group, and speaks for no organisation. Where a historical text or gathering appears in these briefs, it appears as evidence, a document on the record, not as an endorsement this journal claims or a banner it carries.

How the wire is kept

Each brief is checked against the public record before it posts: the archived pages of the site that once occupied this address, the official texts of the conferences it covered, and the reference works a careful reader can consult. Sources are listed in the margin of each brief. Corrections are welcome at the address in the footer; a corrected brief keeps its place on the wire and earns a new date.