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Manoj Mishra Agog with the frothy Yamuna in Delhi, it is as if the first time that media has discovered it. The excitement has raised manifold with political blame game at a high pitch amidst the backdrop of visuals of…

It’s been clear for some time now that the global multilateral order is not fit for its purpose. The covid pandemic has only made the world more aware of the real-time consequences of this gradual decay. The United Nations Security Council has faced a lot of flak for not representing today’s international power realities and for not being able to shape the global discourse on the changing nature of security. For several decades now, the world has been debating and discussing the need for reforms in the UNSC, but to no avail. Leaderships in nations like India seem to have given up and are now putting the onus on the UN to reform itself, if its credibility is to survive.

G 20 in Rome laid the pretext for the Glasgow Environment Summit- the COP. Both felt short of the expectations is an understatement. Were there greater hopes from the leadership of the world especially those of G20 that take the carbon credit of polluting nearly 80% through emissions- yes indeed! Most of them are also the ones that possess the means to address the challenges of Climate Change? They are the ones who are rich and can provide the finances. They also have the technologies to make the world Green yet again. But they are lacking the will to share those as a global Good. Leader after leader did not lack in using high-sounding adjectives to highlight the plight of the world. That we are digging our own graves is a given. But we are also digging it for posterity.