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There is high expectancy from India and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today at the ongoing global summit of biodiversity.
The PM is scheduled to address the huge gathering of delegates from across 173 nations, who are attending the mega meet in Hyderabad.
India will lead the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for the next two years.
The global body, which convenes the Meeting of Parties (MoP) and the Conference of Parties (CoP), is grappling with issues of raising resources to halt the declining biodiversity and hammer out agreements on Living Modified Organisms (LMOs).
There is high interest among delegates to listen to the economist, Manmohan Singh, especially in the lengthening shadows of economic problems facing most of the member nations, including India.
Will he seize the opportunity by setting the agenda for the UN decade of biodiversity (2010-2020) and announce some measures and funding for India to set the tone, is a question uppermost here?
The PM will be in Hyderabad for a couple of hours in the afternoon, exclusively to address the CoP-11 meeting. In addition, he will unveil a special Pylon erected to commemorate the 19-day summit (October 1-19) close to the venue of the HICC.
There is heavy bandobast and security measures with a large number of international delegates on one hand and the possible demonstrations et al from the pro-Telangana groups.
The CoP has so far made some progress in setting up panels to firm up resource mobilisation targets to meet the 20 tasks agreed at Nagoya, Japan in 2010 to conserve global biodiversity. It has also made headway in the Cartagena Protocol (2010) on LMOs.
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