UNFCCC SB60: A Climate Change Pit-Stop in Bonn
Trip to Bonn + SB60 June 1st-5th 2024: Day -1, Samstag 1st Juni: Opening Mindset + Expectations Leaving London early on a sunny Saturday morning, I was full of the usual introspective apprehension that has become typical for these voluntary conferences. Once or twice, phrases of "Am I really choosing to spend my holiday on this?" and "Will my efforts over the next days be worth it?" run through my head. My EYE friend Laurens in a 15 minute Brussels interlude It is a bizarre experience, travelling in self-funded capacity to some foreign location, spending the minimal free-time of my twenties at a conference which many negotiators call "work trips". Of course there is an ambiguous nervousness coming to mind. With recent memories of a fairly traumatic indulgence of my sometimes obsessive work drive while following the GST for YOUNGO in Dubai, I feel I am subconsciously resisting much real excitement about my time in Bonn. However, what I was conscious of w...