Slow and steady might not win the race

Deja Vu , last year I was at the same place for the same thing. Its feels like you have been here and done that. But like every time you eat your favourite ice cream it tastes different, the atmosphere at Bonn has another feel to it. Its slow , disappointing and a blur.

For my first day I struggled to get up on time and was afraid that I’d be late but realised that we Indians no matter how late we start, we always manage to reach the conference centre in time or find our trains or track our luggage. On the way from New Delhi I was checking in right before one of the new negotiators in the Indian Delegation. Ashok Sir with his goodie bag from one of the climate forums for scientists was waiting to reach Bonn for the UNFCCC talks.

At Frankfurt I find him trying to track his luggage which he had checked in all the way till Bonn and caught the train just in the nick of time for Bonn. When you tried to make conversation about Kyoto or LCA he said, ” I don’t really know much policy, I’m more into the science” as he is working with the WMO - World Meteorological Organization.

It will be interesting to meet the new negotiating team although today I saw some of the old ones lurking around- R K Sethi and Mr Mauskar from the Ministry of environment and forests. Only time will tell how the new negotiating team will handle things “differently” from the previous one.

Sensing from the tense situation back home where Minister Jai Ram Ramesh has a thick cloud of controversy surrounding him and also without our chief negotiator Vijai Sharma and Rashmi Ranjan Sir , looks like India will be keeping a low profile.

The whole day , the only inspiration has been looking forward to the great reception and farewell to Yvo de Boer in the evening.

Hope for more exciting days…..