Indo – Chinese Alliance@ Hotel de Moc Room 207, Bangkok

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by Leela Raina in China, India

We really hope our negotiators pick up from the action of the GCCA to host the Chinese tracker and the Indian tracker in the same room. What really hurts both of us , that despite our continuous efforts of building capacity and encouraging local action , the international media still feels like we will be the reason for stalling the negotiations on the way to Copenhagen.

What do I have to say to this???

Well, India and China are definitely key players but most importantly they are the key MOVERS of the negotiations and can actually lead us to the answer to whether we see a deal in the Copenhagen treaty. First introducing you to the background narrative which involves some crucial factors of exactly why Media is taking this stand, in particular US local media.

The first being the impact of positive globalisation which has led to the high level of competitiveness in the international labour market. Given the mastery of the Indian ability to ace IT related jobs, other countries are losing jobs. But contrary to this fact, almost all our rural traditional artisans are unemployed because of intense competition from mechanised textile counterparts, so globalisation is actually affecting us much more adversely than it is to other nations.

Another prominent underlying factor is the Trade Union lobby namely the CITU – Central Industrial Trade Union which apparently is now willing to do something for climate change since they ahve realised that the adverse impacts are the most hazardous to its very own workers? The argument that India is a Debtor country. We cannot afford to scale up solar activities or provide renewable energy driven power unless and until we get finance and technical transfer from the Developed countries. Besides our human development indicators are really dismal for eg our infant mortality rate is so high. We really need to reform our country and in that context coming out with independent goals for mitigation seems a really non negotiable deal. India is a poor country with around 25 % of our population living under the poverty line and it is these vulnerable lives that are at stake.

China and India seem key players to understand the negotiations. We need to understand where India had drawn the red lines and why? Our Human Development indicators are dismal and taking action and calling programmes on poverty alleviation, gender empowerment, health and education are taken up but are at the moment NON negotiable.

Haven’t we already the US enough by planning so much domestically with such a paucity of resources and finance?

If we can do it with these kind of circumstances what stops you from showing some leadership?

Is it that we are not really that good in projecting or rather over projecting the great plans we are willing to implement? Are we not able to communicate what we are willing to do , for you to take leadership?

Are you even listening? Or Are we doing our job in telling them?

This negotiations is about ME and YOU , US , WE need to make to sure we are listening and we are communicating to our governments that there is a positive outcome , that some things do sound UGLY , but they are totally NEGOTIABLE!

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