Dress for success

"On the eve of a major Hunger Summit, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf is embarking on a 24-hour public hunger strike to express his solidarity for more than 1 billion people around the world who are suffering from chronic hunger. Dressed in a tracksuit, overcoat and woolly hat to keep out the cold, he settled into his make-shift room in FAO's Reception Area, equipped with a desk, a sofa and a prayer mat, as surprised staff members headed for the door."
-FAO News





"South Korea, whose emissions nearly doubled from 1990 to 2005, said it would cut emissions by investing in energy-efficient buildings and transportation, developing new green industries and changing patterns of consumption.

“Our industry is really energy-intensive, so this is very ambitious,” Sang-Hyup Kim, South Korea’s secretary to the president for national future and vision, said in a phone interview from Seoul. He noted that the president and cabinet ministers had made the pledge in a building with the thermostat set low, and while wearing thermal underwear."
-New York Times




"A must-see for presidents from President Richard Nixon on, the Great Wall was one of Obama's major sightseeing stops during his diplomatic tour of Asia

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Dressed in a winter jacket against a biting wind at the Great Wall, Obama led a knot of people for a half-hour jaunt up the crenelated wall toward a watchtower, a restored section originally built 500 years ago.

-AP




From hunger to climate change to Sino-American relations, it seems that warm clothing is a prerequisite for any effective statement on a political issue. In Norway of course, warm clothing is a prerequisite for any effective anything.