1/ #COP26 Whilst leaders jet in private jets for their speeches tomorrow, the agenda fight is taking place. This isn't as some dull journalists dismiss as 'debating brackets'. Imagine the Chair of a meeting, deciding the agenda for the meeting. He decides that your critical issue
2/ is an AOB, or maybe that it needs to be taken offline, to discuss how to discuss it next time, whilst the majority of the meeting is given over to what colour to paint the manager's office. Decisions over what and where issues and whose voices count matter.
3/ Rich countries try & rig the system before it even begins. That's why they themselves have huge technical delegations working 24/7 to ensure what they want discussed is discussed & pay for their pet think tanks to 'misadvise' the poorer countries to nod along to agendas
4/ and summaries which aren't in their interest. Locking out global movements locks out those whose only interest is people, justice & planet, helps the Presidency pretend that at #COP26 'all countries are equal but in reality some are just more equal than others'.
5/ So Bolivia's suggestions to take stock of the funds (or lack of) for alternative (ie non market based) policy approaches such as the #GlobalGreenNewDeal & Justice Transitions. Oops maybe for another time.
6/ Or how about the suggestion the COP actually discusses 1.5c & rich country failed to do their fairshare of effort. You know those broken promises from pre 2020 & the pathetic NDCs from the rich. Oops another time maybe.
7/ And if you think come on global diplomacy is hard. Give them a break. When the financial crisis hit the West, in days they had decided to hand over trillions to the banks, when Covid hit them, in days trillions found. But hey be patient at #COP26Glasgow
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