 Today is Sunday the 6th of December and it's just after the reception following the conclusion of two days of development and climate days, the two-day side event that is done every year by IID. This year we did it together with the Overseas Development Institute as well as the Red Cross Centre for Climate Change and other co-sponsors included CDK and the Climate Development Knowledge Network. We had two days of very interesting and fun activities. Today's fun activity involved having a chef, a very famous international chef, Chef Ertiam from New York. He's originally Nigerian but he has a famous restaurant in New York who came and cooked insects and bugs and made it very, very nice and palatable and we all ate them and discussed how food is a very important part of our carbon footprint. Eating meat is a reason why we cause emissions and if we were to cut down on our meat consumption that would be a very important way for us as individuals to reduce our carbon emissions but it was done in a great fun way. Everybody enjoyed themselves. And then after lunch I chaired a parallel session that looked at some very interesting and innovative activities on community-based adaptation that are taking place in some of the poorest countries in the world and most vulnerable in Africa, least of our countries and in small island states and we had a very lively discussion on how best to scale these up and to get global finance to come to the local level which is not easy. It's beginning to happen but not enough and we discussed ways in which we might enhance it. And then finally we had a high-level panel with Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and now the Secretary-General's special envoy on climate justice. We also had Janos Pasteur who is the Secretary-General's undersecretary-General for climate change and the minister from Columbia and several others. He was moderated by Simon Maxwell who is the head of the overseas development institute and at one point I think to be deliberately provocative he suggested whether or not all climate finance should be stopped and included in development finance instead of climate finance and I obviously rose to that debate and challenged him and I said I would much rather the other way around have all the obligations of climate finance actually delivered and if the development finance isn't it doesn't really matter as far as I'm concerned because development finance is given under the paradigm of charity. Decisions are made by the giver who gets and who doesn't get and their political decisions they can decide what to spend it on. Right now many of the developed countries who used to give quite substantial amounts of development assistance are actually diverting that to deal with refugees in their own countries which according to their own rules is allowed seems strange to me but they allow themselves to do that. As climate change finance is under the treaty of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change there's no such treaty for developments of support and financial contributions are obligations that the polluters take and have to abide by in order to support the victims of pollution so it's not about charity it's not about rich giving to the poor it's about polluters giving to the victims of pollution and to me that is the principle under which we should ask for finance get finance monitor finance and as far as development finance is concerned it doesn't really matter as far as I'm concerned. Tomorrow I'll go back to the COP and I'll start reporting back from what's happening there it has moved to the ministerial level various ministers have been given responsibility to carry out consultations we shall find out tomorrow what's happening there.