Supping with the Devil-The Big Polluters
Photo credit :www.redd-monitor.org While the stage is been set towards actualizing a way forward as regards the new climate treaty in Paris, a view from behind the scene has revealed a speck of potential threat to the success of the conference of parties and if necessary actions are not taken, we might have to just kiss the possibility of a consensual outcome goodbye after all. One good question to ruminate upon here is “what becomes of a meeting that wants a solution to a problem and yet allows the problem givers a position of control?” Such is the case with the big polluters standing in as the big spenders supporting the climate meeting in Paris. Now this is the absolute tricky part which is aimed at sending a rather mixed signal of being in support of a positive outcome of the climate negotiations, whereas the end game is basically to stand as saboteurs with the wrong influence. It is quite disheartening to find among the corporate sponsors of COP21, culprits that...