The fever is gripping everyone

Having sat in freezing air conditioned rooms inside the conference rooms and bearing the horribly humid heat while protesting outside the conference centre at Bangkok has made me feverish . But more than that , its how my lead negotiator ‘convinces’ me about the Indian stance that brought on the fever yesterday.

The high profiled debate of whether we are doing enough or not is what is the toughest to answer day in and day out.

INDIAN FEVER

India is doing enough domestically with the condition that the bill gets passed in the parliament regarding the green tribunal and that we actually get into the implementation stage of the solar energy and renewable energy mission . But , what India is not doing enough of, is PR!

We need to progressively start sending our word out of what India is doing and have to package the story and try and spread it as far and wide as possible. The messaging is key to seeing India doing well in these negotiations and helping it being projected in the light that it deserves and has earned back home.

The Indian delegation is extremely upset and almost looks ill since they see the kyoto protocol being literally killed. The purpose of Bali was essentially to split the negotiations into a kyoto  track and a long term action track to accommodate the Unites States into an agreement. Now , it looks like the rest of the countries are accommodating to build in space for the United States to come on board and to say bye bye to the kyoto protocol.

This FEVER has definitely gripped the G77 and China group of countries who are working hard to build a framework to carry on the kyoto for its second commitment period starting from 2013.

COPENHAGEN FEVER

The other really rampant fever is the COPENHAGEN fever , all the activities , campaigns and work on the road upto Copenhagen is keeping the NGO community busy and on their toes. But whether we see a real agreement in Copenhagen or not is the question all the climate activists are asking. You see all of them crowded around the Visa application centre for Copehagen ensuring that they are there to put pressure on getting to a positive outcome in Copenhagen. Apart from that, the global youth  movement is building capacity and we might just witness more youth than delegates at Copenhagen this year especially those representing the global south ensuring that we decide our future!

THE EARTH IS ILL TOO

The essence of the problem is that the EARTH is ill too , and these negotiators get to be the doctors and decide the future of the earth. Why is no one back home bothered enough? Why don’t these negotiators realise the importance of the task entrusted upon them? Who knows how they define responsibility and whether they even know that the R of responsibility !

POLITICAL FEVER

Given that the negotiations have boiled down to just politics, the fever will trickle down to every aspect of the negotiations. The people to look out for, of course, are the US, China and India who will be key in defining the political nature of “climate”.

The best solution, medicate yourself, adapt to the varaiting climate inside and outside the UN centre and make sure that atleast you aren’t caught up in the political fever and loose your life in the process.