Having arrived late in Nairobi on Tuesday after a pre-COP safari, Tusker had no time to change and was taken off to Gigiri in his dusty khaki suit. His survival gear came in handy, as it was not before Friday lunch-time that Tusker finally found his way to a side event at the African something tree in ICRAF.

A new potential Party to the Protocol, the Dependant Republic of AAUrania, that had recently elected a Harvard trained economist as its President, was presenting its request to join Annex B.

The new AAUranian government had been advised it could increase the gross domestic product of its country 5,000 per cent by going to Nairobi and pledging to take on a Voluntary Emissions Liberalisation and Constant Revenue Objective (VELCRO).

An expensive consultant study has proposed to set up the VELCRO level at an annual growth reduction of 0.1 per cent compared to 1900 levels. The US delegate following the side event immediately proclaimed his endorsement of the concept.