History repeated itself at Cancun

  • 16/01/2011

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)

GLOBAL negotiations are not an easy task. For that matter, every negotiation requires maturity of understanding of what one party will give and what the other party is able to accept. In negotiations that involve many parties and contentious international issues such as trade or climate change, things become much more complex and need to be approached on an incremental basis. Following the Climate Change Summit at Cancun in December 2010, environment minister Jairam Ramesh is once again under attack for selling out India and the developing world. That is because the deal did not go all the way of legally-binding rich countries to cut down their emissions and so on. Before the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change, I wrote in ET,