 Today is Saturday, the 5th of December and I'm at the development and climate days event that we do every year on the Saturday Sunday in the middle weekend of the COP with IID and partners and it's a very relaxed event so I'm wearing my weekend clothes but I'm going to talk about yesterday Friday the 4th of December and say a few things that happened yesterday in the negotiations we have some text that has been finalized as of last night and is being released today there's still quite a few brackets that are going to go to the ministers who will start assembling on Monday but I also was involved in a couple of other events off-site which I'll talk about the first one was a side event that ICAD the International Center for Climate Change and Development and the Science Po University in Paris co-organized hosted at the Science Po University we had about 30 people together the site event was on loss and damage and it was a bunch of researchers and NGOs who work on the issue to share ideas and in particular how we can help the Warsaw International Mechanism on loss and damage fulfill its mandate which is to produce a report on nine different aspects of loss and damage by COP 22 next year which will be in Morocco and there are quite a few researchers growing number of researchers that are getting interest in the different aspects of loss and damage and we had a very lively discussion and we will be producing a report from that later on the same day in the evening we had an ICAD dinner with a number of our staff who are here in Paris from Bangladesh as well as a fair number of alumni who had been at ICAD at various times some in France some in the UK who are all attending the COP at the moment and a few of our friends so we had a very nice about 30 people for dinner and ICAD dinner we've been tweeting quite a lot about our activities so I hope people who are watching the video logs will also follow me on Twitter if you want to see on a more regular basis during the days what's happening I will then report in my next video log on Saturday's events that took place in the development climate days site event in Paris