Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Saturday, November 14, 2026

New Agendas Senryu

No More Fairy Tales, LVII
COP31, negotiating roadmaps for implementation 

stacked high
next year's fresh agendas --
early leaf fall



FYI: The 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) is taking place from November 9 to November 20, 2026, at the Antalya Expo Center in Antalya, Türkiye.

And the joshi (prefatory note), "Negotiating roadmaps for implementation," is used to captures the procedural language of "climate diplomacy." There's an implicit irony in negotiating how to implement what presumably should already be implemented.