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In the early hours of Thursday, 11 December 1997, in the Japanese city of Kyoto, the Executive-Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), Michael Zammit Cutajar, selected a poem for me to sum up his thoughts on negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change:
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Falling into the Moon’s reflection
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From a single petal
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Rings of waves
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Blown by the breeze
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Touching each life.1
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Doran, P. (2000). Upholding the “Island of High Modernity”: The Changing Climate of American Foreign Policy. In: Harris, P.G. (eds) Climate Change and American Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62978-7_3
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