A healthy loss and damage (L&D) fund, a three-decade-old demand, is a fundamental expression of climate justice. The L&D fund is a corpus of money and technologies that will be replenished by developed countries and used by the rest to respond to the more unavoidable effects of climate change.
it will be hosted by the World Bank for an interim period of four years and will be overseen by an independent secretariat.
Some countries have committed amounts to the fund — from $10 million by Japan to $100 million each by Germany and the UAE — whether they will be periodically replenished is not clear. The committed amounts are also insufficient.
Developed countries missing their 2020 deadline to mobilise a promised $100 billion in climate finance and managing to deliver only $89.6 billion in 2021.
Myanmar’s Spring Revolution, a pro-democracy campaign, (started after Aung San Kyi’s seizure of power in 2021 after 2020 elections where she was charged of corruption. ) has intensified against Myanmar’s military/Military Junta , but there are many developments which we in India should take into account.
The formation of the National Unity Government (NUG) and in shaping “Myanmar’s Spring Revolution”.The composition of the NUG(a pro-democratic coalition) should not be seen by Indians to be just another NLD-led body (Aung San Kyi). It’s broader, bigger and more comprehensive.
INDIA-While India has supported democratic reforms, it has cautiously cultivated ties with the junta, as it seeks to counter China’s influence in Myanmar.
Issue of refugees in bordering states of India-Mizoram & Tripura
In the G-20 group, the country has the smallest number of civil servants per capita.
The public sector share in total employment in India (at 5.77%) is half the corresponding figures for Indonesia and China, and just about a third of that in the United Kingdom.
With approximately 1,600 per million, the number of central government personnel in India pales in comparison to 7,500 in the United States.
Similarly, the per capita number of doctors, teachers, town planners, police, judges, firefighters, inspectors for food and drugs, and regulators is the lowest even among countries at a similar stage of development.
Debating the role of the state-The proponents of inclusive development rightly pitch for a bigger role for the state — increased public spending on health, education, social security and a larger officialdom to go with it. Their detractors, on the other hand, cite innumerable policy failures to argue for a smaller state.
Reality- ‘people-thin’ but ‘process-thick country i.e. India.
Issues -
There is an extreme concentration of policymaking and implementation powers within departments.
The top policymakers exhibit a lack of technocratic skills to govern an increasingly complex economy. (In the absence of adequate capability the Centre and the States hire consultancy firms. According to media reports, the central government paid over ₹500 crore in the last five years to outsource crucial tasks to the big five consultancy firms.)
Similarly, there is a need to augment the strength of professional staff with market watchdogs, SEBI & RBI . The first has just about 800 professionals, whereas its counterpart in the U.S., the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has more than 4,500 experts to govern the corporates.
The political will is required to address any issue at end.
Corruption and Job security in Govt services - The solution lies in moderate pay raises by the future Pay Commission and a reduction in the upper age limit for government jobs.
