State of global environmental governance 2021
Negotiating global agreements on climate action, biodiversity restoration, plastic pollution control, and other environmental crises is not easy at the best of times-and 2021 was far from that. Shifting
Global Environmental Agreements
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New opportunity to renew old orders
<p>In recent months, Delhi has seen unprecedented growth in star foreign visitors flying in by night to advise us on the impending dangers of climate change and hand out ‘how to’ manuals on reducing the threat.
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Hot Air
<p><strong>Poznan is cold, a little less than it was expected.</strong></p> <p><strong>And the delegates are to be kept warm</strong></p> <p> </p>
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Poverty as a posture?
<p><strong>The road to next climate negotiation turns hostile as some developing nations are upgraded.</strong><br />
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Historical burden
<p><strong>The north may renege again and again but the south must go on fuelling their growth</strong><br />
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GoodBAU, cruel world
<p>At l’aquila in Italy, during a meeting of the world’s major boys and girls, India agreed to cap its carbon emissions. The agreement proclaimed the signatory countries would work together to limit global temperature rise to 2ºC from pre-industrial time. It was as if they were writing off bad debt.
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Beyond Rio+20
It was June of 1992. The location was Rio de Janeiro. The occasion was the world conference on environment and development. A large number of people had come out on the streets. They were protesting the
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Climate change, sustainable development and security are coming together, and Asia must drive the post-2015 global agenda and global goals
<p><em>Redistribution has been kept out of the agenda of the United Nations, and a new global agenda, goals and rules to share responsibility and prosperity can lead to a new world </em></p>