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CATCHING A NARRATIVE IN THE MAKING.
First step -- Glasgow becomes a third person actor extraneous to countries. Glasgow decided, Glasgow's success... @JMauskar @bforboseman @3rdworldnetwork @Ninad_India @KanitkarT @n_thanki #COP26
thehindu.com/opinion/lead/t…

Glasgow was necessary...Glasgow strengthened the Paris Agreement mechanism...."Glasgow clarified the ‘ambition cycle’, and this appears to have had results in the form of enhanced pledges." What??

How does this trick work? One, confuse two separate stages -- before the meeting and what the meeting decided. Before the meeting, the UK Presidency, US and EU went around "persuading". Global media campaign, etc. Glasgow had nothing to do with it!! Countries provide pledges.

What did Glasgow decide? It was the same UK presidency that provided a take-it-or-leave-it text. Presented in its semi-final form on 12th November, all the consultations were of little avail, as essentially the same text returned with very minor, mostly editorial changes on 13th.

I did a diffcheck between the two decisions. Only 15 percent difference in words, with most substantive changes in the Loss and Damage section, for the worse. But all of this is done by specific actors -- no one anonymous or faceless.

The article admits that equity and fairness are a casualty. But then turns to coal, suggests that India should have accepted the decision as given and later sought money for "transition". All in the name of some "objective" process with no particular actors behind it at all.

No finance as promised. Certainly not from "public" sources. So? Be pragmatic, take whatever private sector gives you. Enhanced transparency framework -- the same "ratcheting" , "narrowed" the difference between developed and developing...

But wait...there is no justification for such differences anyway. Common thread right through -- Refuse to admit that what happened at #COP26 was a series of decisions thrust on the world by the Annex-I with some allies from the Non-Annex-I. Pretend it is some objective process.

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