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Bob Phillipson
@diplomatdad.bsky.social
Grimsby lad/dad/partner. Years in politics/conflict/crisis in 🇮🇶🇸🇾🇱🇾🇵🇸🇯🇴🇲🇽🇧🇷 Now in 🇦🇺 in charge of 4 small kids. Woefully unprepared
Parenting Applied to Diplomacy…

COP President must send everyone home with something

🇧🇷 Brazil #COP30 Strategy: Kids Party Model

* Prep furiously & build expectations

* Over-stimulate until guests are tired/emotional

* Send them home with an underwhelming goody bag of treats/trinkets

Harsh?
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Reposted by Bob Phillipson
This was Alessandra Korap Munduruku this morning. She lives in the Brazilian state where COP is taking place this year! She was not given a pass into the Blue Zone.

These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#Adelaide to host #COP31 if Australia/Pacific bid successful

South Australia on track to achieve 💯% energy from renewables with 🔋 backup

This region also subject to rising seas, bushfires, coral bleaching, extreme weather

Showcasing both risks and solutions

#climate
www.afr.com/policy/energ...
Labor declares Adelaide to host climate summit in electoral wedge
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the COP31 summit would provide an economic boost to Adelaide that would be denied under a Coalition government.
www.afr.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The fossil fuel industry is fighting hard to protect their interests here in Busan #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty 220 lobbyists - more than any other negotiating session
BREAKING: @cielorg.bsky.social analysis of #PlasticsTreaty
@unep.bsky.social participants list exposes that #FossilFuel and chemical industry 🏭 lobbyists taken together would be the largest single delegation at #INC5.

READ 👇
www.ciel.org/news/inc-5-l...
November 27, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Spotted in the metro station next to where the negotiations for a Global #PlasticsTreaty #INC5 are being held
November 27, 2024 at 12:05 AM
84% of the public support limiting plastic production so as to tackle plastic pollution

People were polled in 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇰🇪🇨🇭🇪🇸 and host of #INC5: 🇰🇷

Will the #PlasticsTreaty deliver on public expectations?

www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2024/11/22/8...
84% of people across ten countries support cuts to plastic production | Break Free From Plastic
84% of people across ten countries support cuts to plastic production, as revealed in a new survey published by Break Free From Plastic ahead of the fifth round of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Co...
www.breakfreefromplastic.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:59 PM
On my way to #INC5 of the #PlasticsTreaty in Busan. I brought a little puzzle to keep me busy on the plane ❤️
November 22, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Recently I had surgery to close a hole in my heart. An amazing device of titanium, nickel & polyester was inserted into a vein, fed into my heart & opened up like a tiny umbrella ☂️

How's it feel as someone who spends his days fighting #plastic production to have plastic forever in my heart? 🤔
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November 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM