15 June 2012

• Getting ready for Rio+20 in late June. Delegations, Secretariat staff, civil society groups and assorted environmentalists are preparing position papers. A rebellious group is mobilizing for popular pressure.
  
  

• Getting ready for some sort of gathering on Syria in Moscow or Geneva. Lots of maneuvers and back-channel contacts. Scope and participants to be clarified.
  
  

• Getting ready for summer holidays.