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