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10.1 Can the UK-led COP26 change the game?
So the process of `active inaction' continues
☐ UK is doing excellent/elaborate homework, with its R2Z/R2R & many other initiatives; will it
rachet up Mitigation, CF, etc.?
□ UK PM announced reducing its ODA level from 0.7 percent of its GNI to 0.5 percent - a wrong
signal by the COP Presidency
☐ Here is a statement of Churchill, a veteran British politician, in the House of Commons on 12 Nov
1936, which sounds as if it is written for today's continued inaction in CC negotiations:
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to
be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent . . . Owing to
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past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have entered upon a period of danger.
The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience of delays, is
coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. We cannot avoid
this period, we are in it now. (www.Churchill-society-London.org.uk/ Locusts.html, `
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Bangladesh's Expectation from COP26
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