Captured in SolarFUN
Tuesday 4 Dec 2007
by Razceljan SG-Philippines
Assignment of the day: mind-boggling Solar Quiz Master game.
The moment we arrived in the center, we spent few minutes discussing the day’s tasks and finalizing the questions for the quiz like: “Kyoto, just do it!” What is it?
a. The last campaign of a famous shoes company
b. A Japanese song
c. SolarGeneration’s message at the UN Conference in Bali
Mind-boggling enough? If one’s smart enough to answer all the questions, a trip to the Rainbow Warrior – the flagship of Greenpeace – is at stake!
I teamed up with Augustin (or Augus of SG France) to design the questionnaire and the posters to advertise the game. We made our way to the Greenpeace office in pedal power transport mode – bicycles were made available within the center to move easily around the area.
Augus started the initial layout while I worked on the poster design using available whiteboard markers. We caught up with Mala, one of the Indonesian delegates, filing GP statements ready for release.
Way past 12 noon, we joined the team for a short lunch at the beach and after which, we separated ways. Augus and I went back to the office to finish the work while the rest of the team went to the Grand Hyatt for the Greenpeace side event on “Reducing emissions from deforestation.”
We got caught in the rain on our way back to the center. Galih, Augus, and Chris helped prepare the mobile poster while the rest of the team did some lobbying to their respective country delegates. By 5PM, Mr. P.Bear (this time it was Woon getting cooked inside) roamed around the center guided by Abi and the SG team inviting delegates around to answer the quiz and write a message on the ‘We are watching you!’ postcard to the UN negotiators. I kept an eye for Philippine party delegates, but I ended up talking with a delegate from Lithuania, who was interested about the result of the quiz and asked if SolarGeneration plans to establish a chapter in Lithuania.
After the rounds at the center, we all convened at the back of the booth for debriefing and an update in the political negotiation shared and made simply understandable by Daniel of GP-USA. He shared three points: 1. Japan’s vision to create a “new framework” out of the Kyoto Protocol – a shame for the 10th anniversary of the treaty, which historically came about in their country; 2. developing countries’ reminder of the technology transfer stated in the treaty; and 3. China’s “interesting proposal” for industrialized countries who haven’t ratified the Kyoto Protocol to negotiate among themselves objectives parallel to the protocol – a funny one-act play for the US to do as the only industrialized country that hasn’t ratified yet.
The day was a combination of creative and ‘serious’ actions all for the planet.