Trying to make the sour grapes, sweet- Jairam gifted by NGOs back home

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Leela Raina in Action alert, India

To make our stay most effective in Copenhagen , the GCCA - Global Day of Action team has set up national hubs to communicate all the news and movements in the climate summit back home and build public opinion to urge governments to take stronger action.

Just before our environment minister Jairam Ramesh lands in Copenhagen he was greeted by a coalition of NGOs - Oxfam, IYCN (Indian Youth Climate Network) and Greenpeace presented Union Minister, Jairam Ramesh with a
basket of sweets expressing the hopes of a billion people, on the eve of his departure to Copenhagen for the Climate talks.

The NGOs congratulated him on structuring India’s official stance on Copenhagen negotiations as mentioned in his Lok Sabha speech. They lent support to Mr.Jairam Ramesh to ensure a FAB (fair, ambitious and binding) deal and urged him to continue showing climate leadership at Copenhagen.

Reva, a young volunteer from IYCN urged the Minister not to bow down to the developed world and to ensure that the concerns of the AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) countries are not disregarded by India.

This could be constructive in bridging the gap between AOSIS and India once the minister lands here in Copenhagen. We could see a convergence of the Indian stance and the AOSIS stance to avoid teh break up of G 77 and aChina and giving the developed countries an opportunity to make it from a deal to no deal.

Hoping to COPE in COPEnhagen …….

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