18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Doha, 26 November – 7 December 2012 Photo: Photo: IHA Central Office.

Oliver Robertson describes QUNO’s first visit to the eighteenth Conference of the Parties in Qatar

A visit to Doha

Oliver Robertson describes QUNO’s first visit to the eighteenth Conference of the Parties in Qatar

by Oliver Robertson 7th December 2012

It always seems impossible until it is done.  - Nelson Mandela This is one of the inspiring phrases sitting on my desk at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva, a desk more than four and a half thousand kilometres from the Qatar National Convention Centre, venue for the eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).