One precious day outside the bubble
Sunday is the only day without negotiations at the UNFCCC, though we all continue working we don’t have to go to the UN buildings and for that, if nothing else, Sunday is pretty awesome.
One precious day outside the bubble.
So Sunday I usually take a step back and find time to reflect and regroup and remember the world outside the UNFCCC. Today I had the pleasure of going down to a session where young people were coming together to train and organise Power Shift Europe. It was so inspiring and exciting to see a seed that was planted a couple of years ago finally start to germinate and I am so excited to see the results: between 10 and 15 Power Shifts happening all over Europe in October!
After a long week at the UN being somewhere with other young people, taking out future in our own hands, was so refreshing and so inspiring.
Now as I prepare for another long week here at the UNFCCC I take a little bit of the passion and life I felt in the room today and store it inside me, so when the process gets me down I can remind myself why I am here.
And as I relax in the beauty of the early evening night I think about how much has changed since I first sat here and how much change there is to come.
And I think about my role in it all….
I can only hope the negotiators here have had this chance today too.
How does change happen?
Policy, says the policy-maker.
Markets, says the business manager.
Mass mobilisation, says the organiser.
Dialogue, says the convenor.
Systems change, says the academic.
Imagination, says the artist.
Invention says the scientist.
Innovation, says the technologist.
Revolution, says the activist.
Networks, says the connector.
Inspiration, says the story-teller.
Love, says the mother.
Aspiration, says the father.
Laughter, says the child.
Possibility, says the youth.
Reflection, says the elder.
Jennifer Corriero




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Anna CollinsBorn and bred in Warrington in the *sunny* North of England, Anna was brought up by parents with a deep sense of justice and taught to always fight for what she believed is right. "I guess you could say it was in the blood, my gran went to Greenham Common in the 80s."