On the more cheerful side...

[heliopausa]

Life is getting busier and busier in the streets around me - everyone's gearing up for Tet, with frantic cleaning and gift-buying and planning to get back home (wherever home is).  Last weekend, though,

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[khiemtran]

Well, that's certainly good news for the river! Thank you for sharing...

[heliopausa]

You're very welcome! :)

[asakiyume]

The lion is lovely--he does look like how I imagine Aslan. And I love seeing those Vietnamese young people! (They look well bundled up--it really has been cold this year for you!) Great that they're taking care of the river; I love it when people get energized to do something like that.

I'm going to open the report in a tab in hopes of getting to read it--always glad for news of people finding ways to move forward on complex problems, and climate change has to be one of the most complex.

Yay for 天! 　And yay for matched socks!

[heliopausa]

The newspaper article I linked to shows lots of different local waterways, rivers and lakes - all of which were benefitting from the drive to cut down on plastic bags, of course. :)

The report is relatively brief and clear (i.e. for that sort of report!) and spells out the remaining political/diplomatic problems as well as the process used so far. I really liked how it highlighted the human side of international negotiations, as well as showing the political hurdles - for example the part about bringing critics in as facilitators of discussions, and even the part about providing "decent food" as contributing to the overall positive atmosphere - sounds absurd, but I can see very well (speaking as a vegetarian who has oh-so-often found herself looking glumly at just the salad bar, no hot food, and half the salads being scattered with bacon anyway!) how a constant niggling sense of injustice about food could bring down a conference. (We can assume all the negotiators are much more mature and less greedy than I am, of course, but

[wellinghall]

I am pleased to hear of the good things going on :-)

[heliopausa]

Thank you. :)