[bestbits] Global governance and global IG

[Guru गुरु]

Climate change is an issue where developed countries are putting their 
own narrow interests on top, and refusing to entertain legitimate 
demands of the developing countries... and in this space (like many 
others), global civil society is mostly with the cause of the developing 
countries. see below 
(http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/ngos-walk-out-of-warsaw-talks/article5376547.ece 
)

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///"In a rare sign of frustration and solidarity, over 800 
representatives of NGOs staged a walkout from the climate negotiations 
here, citing lack of commitment from developed countries and *take over 
by corporate interests.*The environmental NGOs have always been an 
integral part of the climate talks and are allowed to not only sit in 
and watch the negotiations but also intervene at times with their demands.

“How many more years should we wait while people face the fury of 
climate change now? Climate talks in Warsaw are supposed to create 
solutions to deal with increasing typhoons, rising seas and dying 
species. Instead of leading at these talks, rich countries are 
back-tracking, blocking and taking U-turns. This has become the norm and 
this must change,” said Harjeet Singh from ActionAid International 
before joining the walkout. The developed countries have collectively 
blocked progress on two key issues — Loss and Damage and delivering 
finance to the poor countries.On a third track, negotiations have been 
dragging for three days with the rich countries trying to break the 
firewall between the developed and the developing countries and hence 
reneging on their commitments to fight climate,
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In the IG space, we have seen large parts of civil society push the 
hegemonic agenda of the  USG and US based transnationals partnership 
....  even as Snowden exposures point out to the extra-ordinary 
collusion between the USG and these large corporates in promoting their 
political and economic interests at the cost of others... And in the IGC 
we have even had strong arguments on how private sector needs to sit as 
an equal on the policy table... though its  obvious that this can only 
serve to stall any regulation in the public interest.

It is unfortunate that these sections of IG civil society seem oblivious 
to the danger that perhaps the biggest threat to the world, its 
democracy as well its economic egalitarianism, is the systemic 
neo-liberalisation of society. The case of climate change governance in 
which corporates wielding unprecedented political (not just economic) 
role and influence are able to thwart meaningful regulation/policy that 
is much needed in global public interest is seen in the cited article. 
Its even more unfortunate that sections of IG civil society are ready to 
actively support and enable corporatist governance models (basically 
'decision making on equal footing' model) which will ensurecontinuance 
and further strengthening of the political-economic hegemony in IG.

regards,
Guru

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