Glasgow: Alok Sharma almost no household name in the UK, especially the whole world, when appointed to lead the UN climate talks now reaches the climax in Glasgow.
But with the future of the planet at stake, the COP26 president must arise from the shadows to stand in a bright spotlight confusingly over the past two weeks, trying to reconcile the demands that seem to be reconciled.
Reflecting his own role, a former Self-Ephacing British business secretary said on Thursday: “People sometimes describe me as ‘no Sharma drama’.” This nickname was modeled to former US President Barack Obama.
But Sharma will hope for better results than “no Obama’s drama”.
Then in his first year in the White House, Obama who was inexperienced suffered a famous bust-up with China on COP 2009 in Copenhagen.
Sharma certainly did not have Obama’s dome speech or its own boss, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who appointed him to direct the COP26 process in addition to the United Nations in February 2020.
It came the same as the Coronavirus pandemic began to sweep the world, but the year 54-year-old politician had attached a globetrotting schedule Tiring in the months before Glasgow.
Sharma has tried to establish personal relationships with smaller island countries but also with more influential economies by visiting China and India’s home country – two of the biggest delay towards ambitious agreements.
He has won some praise from the delegation because of his balanced leadership.
But so far, Sharma has been tried by criticism that Johnson should appoint a larger bat to the important climate work.
“I think Alok Sharma has done well, but I think the broader British government has been guilty because I think they don’t embrace the seriousness of the difficulties with quite early,” Miliiband billion billion billion miliband Britain told AFP.
Aiming for Johnson directly, he said: “You cannot compensate for two weeks because he did not do a job for two years.” Sharma initially combined the role of President COP26 with the position of Secretary of the Johnson Cabinet for business, energy and industry strategies.
This dual-hatting approach attracted criticism that Johnson did not take the police process seriously, and Sharma finally took the role full of time in January this year.
Sharma was born in the city of Taj Mahal Agra in 1967 and his parents moved to Reading, a commuter belt city in the west of London, five years later.
Like a better colleague, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, Sharma has taken an oath of MPS’s loyalty over Hindu Bhagavad Gita.
Johnny Luk, a conservative activist from the Chinese inheritance, telling how he “received quite a lot of racial harassment” when he stood unsuccessful for parliament in 2019.
“Alok reached out personally to express his support to me, which I care about in depth,” he told the Daily Telegraph when Sharma was made by President COP26.
“He is one of the best people I know in politics, he’s a sharp razor, he cares about specific problems, not just voice sounds,” Luk added.
There are few who suggest a future role as a climate teacher on the Sharma line from a university in Salford, in the northwest of England, for training as an accountant and then work in the company’s financial sector.
Urged by his wife Sweden to consider career in politics, he became a member of Parliament for Johnson conservatives in 2010, representing seats in prosperous readings.
Sharma holds various positions of the junior government before being given the work of the International Development Minister’s Cabinet level when Johnson served in July 2019.
He is one of the few politicians “Keeper” stored by Johnson, after campaigning to live in England EU, but rated as a pair of hands Safe and then remain loyal to the Prime Minister’s hard-line vision about Brexit.
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