What's after the end of COP21 (a proposal)

[tommv]

Now that the COP21 has finished, I think there is still a very interesting way to extract (democratic) value from the huge work that you've done on the negotiating text.

My impression (and not just mine unfortunately) is that the final text of the agreement retains systematically the weakest of all the previous options (with the notable exception of the 1.5°).
This is something that a well done diff could show.

@rgrp is there a way you can publish an early version of the draft (ideally that of the one with which they enter the negotiation, but if it is too different, the version of the 5 December will do) and highlight on it the option that have been retained in the final text?

Should my impression be right, we could then communicate a bit around it.

[rufuspollock]

@tommv working on it as we speak :-)

[rufuspollock]

@tommv a bit late but the diffs are all now up ;-) e.g. http://cop21.okfnlabs.org/diff/9-dec-vs-12-dec/ and see front page http://cop21.okfnlabs.org/

[tommv]

@rgrp great to see that the diffs are shaping up!
I had a good look at them and, from what I see, the main problem is that often you are not comparing the good paragraph between different version. I guess that this come from the fact that the order of the paragraphs has often changed between different versions:
e.g. in http://cop21.okfnlabs.org/diff/23-oct-vs-4-dec/ paragraph 11 and 13 have been swapped from the earlier to the latter version.

I imagine this change or order are difficult to catch automatically, but maybe I can help by manually re-ordering the older versions so that they 'fit' the newer. Let's talk about it if you think that this makes sense.

[rufuspollock]

/cc @GregoryRhysEvans here.

@tommv very useful comments and it is an issue. One option would be to try and split and "cross-match" particular sections esp the most important ones. If we had a sense of which those were we could pull them out and do those as special diffs. wdyt?

[tommv]

@rgrp and @GregoryRhysEvans
I think that split and "cross-matching" is a very good idea.

The most important sections are, to start with, those which made it to the 12th December version.
But I can select among those if

• you give me a sense of how many sections you want me to select
• you tell me how to do it (shall I just give you the number of the line in the 12th December version?)

[rufuspollock]

@tommv if you could pick 3-5 sections. In terms of sections just give us their titles and we can extract.

[tommv]

@rgrp just to make sure, what do you mean by "section", the lines in the diff? or the articles?

[tommv]

@rgrp and @GregoryRhysEvans
Below the exercise of re-organisation of paragraphs for the art 2
DiffCOP21.pdf

Hope this helps