I left OR Tambo on Thursday night, 10th February, late already for a seminar on Climate Change Adaptation Financing, which was planned to kick off that very evening. My itinerary dictated that I needed to jump off in Munich and then later, about 30 minutes, hop on another plane that will take me to Cologne/Bonn. But our flight from OR Tambo was delayed by about an hour. That meant I was obviously going to miss my connecting flight, and I did. This was not be a train smash, because I was able to get another flight with ease. When I arrived in Cologne/Bonn, Ruediger from ICLEI (the institution that invited me) was there waiting for me. When I arrived in the seminar, it was in fact time to make my presentation, but the facilitator Jeb Brugmann quite correctly felt that I needed to settle down and have a feel of discussions first. The discussions were quite rich, focusing on how best to finance or invest in climate change adaptation projects. We discussed until about 6:30pm. By this time,...