So, I was eating semi-delicious COPcake (is it cheesecake? is that a raisin? what is this chocolaty substance?) outside the "Apollo Butterfly" room where I'd been waiting 30 minutes for a 45 minute meeting to start when someone asked me, "Is that the new MacBook?" I turned around and saw a youngish Japanese guy. I resisted doing the customary check-out of his conference badge (different colours represent different statuses - I'm yellow, for NGO, while it's pink for negotiating parties that you've got to look for if you want to talk to someone with power), and I told him, "Yes, it is," and, "no, the glare from the screen isn't so bad, really." After a minute of talking, I introduced myself, and found out that he's the negotiator for Japan on adaptation (read: pink badge). I told him up front that we were very upset to hear that Canada and Japan had been advocating for the 25-40% range of emissions reductions that was agreed on in Bali to be removed. We also discussed the sectoral approach to emissions reductions, which Japan has been strongly advocating, and I expressed concern that taking a bottom-up approach to reduction targets (rather than deciding on a total reduction for all parties and then dividing it up) might not result in strong enough action. I also tried to get him to spill the beans on when Japan would release their mitigation targets, but to no avail. We talked about adaptation funding a bit, and, of course, the weather. I was pretty surprised at how easy it was to talk to him, although I guess it's unlikely that what we discussed will have a major impact on Japan's international climate policy. After 15 minutes or so, he suddenly realized that he was late for a meeting (or he was just being polite). Maybe that's why my meeting never started - the chair was networking with youth delegates?