Thank God this time Nepal has been on the waves of news around the globe for a good purpose- not for its notorious bandhs, Royal Massacre or the Communist Insurgency. Nepal succeeded in grabbing the enough international attention to uncover the bitter realities and the harsh consequences, its Himalayas and the lives there are facing by virtue of climate change.
Nevertheless, Nepal’s way to draw the attention worldwide has been rather explained as the imitation of Maldivian cabinet meeting under the sea and not more than a publicity stunt, I think on the contrary this step has shown its utmost importance in spelling out many things, local people in the Himalayas are facing in its own[ local] way. Besides, the issues raised via the 10-point declaration by this cabinet has added another strong voice in global outcry to fight against the bad impacts of climate change, especially, in mitigating the consequences which have not to do anything else with their own activities rather due to the large amount of carbon emission by the industrial and the developed nations. We can just take an instance of Nepal and the United States. Nepal shares only 0.025% while the US shares 25% of the total carbon emission of the world but the people and topography of both countries are facing the consequences in almost equal proportion. So, it’s not fair that the consequences caused by one is imposed on the others. But as the member of the same globe, there is no other option to face the problems which has engulfed the whole world together. So, it’s better to help the efforts to mitigate the consequences of climate change and the global warming jointly rather showing fingers to one another for the bad results. Copenhagen climate change summit could be a better forum to find out a common solution rather it shall be understanding, in regards to these joint efforts. Basically, many world summits always have been influenced by the decisions and influences of the world powers. The world powers who have agreed to cut carbon emissions and set certain target regarding that after a long run of persuasion from their counterparts and the Least Developed Countries popularly known as LDCs, could have not been able this time also to earn the belief of many critics that they will show their serious concerns about the climate change and global warming. Despite of some skeptics, I am very hopeful this summit will be very fruitful to move forward jointly in order to combat the problems raised by climate change. I am equally afraid at the same time that, the problems faced by the Least Developed countries and especially the Himalayas in those countries would be given very little preference relatively. The opening of the Copenhagen summit has also shown that sign. In the opening session of the summit, the speakers gave a damn to the plight of Himalayas. It’s not a good sign. Despite of being overshadowed by the issues like probable decisions of rich countries to cut the carbon emissions and regulating the global warming , it’s high time not to forget to focus on other issues like the financial support for developing and poor countries’ efforts in fighting the climate change consequences, the carbon trade scheme, etc.