Indian Summer; Cashing Karma; Climate Emergency
G20 Summit; N Chandra Babu Naidu; Climate Change
Opinion Watch
Indian Summer
The G20 Leaders’ Summit was spectacular in scale and also substantive in outcomes, and several dailies have sought to dig deeper into their imports to make a sense for times to come with consensus that India pulled through a diplomatic marvel to breakout of the East-West bind. The Indian Express in its Editorial noted that India on world stage now stands de-linked with Russia, while New Delhi’s “correct reading of the Ukraine War” persuaded the Western nations to accept the hardships faced by the Global South (developing nations). While the outright condemnation of the Ukraine War went missing in Delhi Declaration, the Noida-based daily outlined that endorsement of bottomlines on territorial integrity and diplomacy as a way out were creditable.
The principal mandate of the G20 is to stitch a closer economic cooperation but shadow of geo-politics now looms on such groups. Yet, the outcomes on the basis of convergence of views on climate mitigation efforts, debt resolution of poor nations, bridging gender gaps, and others are highly praiseworthy.
Cashing Karma
The Hindustan Times has said in its Editorial that the arrest of former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. Chandra Babu Naidu is indeed a vendetta politics. The New Delhi-based daily underlined that the arrest in an alleged skill development scam has come within months of the Assembly elections in the state. It also noted the condemnation of the arrest by the NDA and INDIA, the Opposition block.
Naidu is reaping own harvest. He had been at the forefront of vendetta politics for having jailed the incumbent Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy in the past. Karma, as is said, always catches up with the people, and one, thus, must be most guarded in their actions.
Climate Emergency
The Hindu in its Editorial has spotlighted the stocktaking report released by the United Nations ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit on the assessment of the efforts to cut down the greenhouse gas emissions, noting that the signatories are lagging far behind in their commitment with gap being in excess of 20 billion tonnes of CO2. The Chennai-based daily highlighted that 93 per cent of the coal-based power plants are operational in G20 countries. It called for the stocktaking report to be the basis of the COP28 Dubai.
The UN previously also revealed that the world is falling much behind to cut down the carbon emissions. Consequences of lowering the guards are not even at the doors, but now visible in the houses as floods in several countries are reaching the roofs of habitations.
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